Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 16:16:53 +0100
From: FC262SAM01-AT-ntu.ac.uk (SA Mills - Ma Writing: Practice & Issues)
Subject: Re: BwO Definition


Hi there,
I must admit to finding it quite amusing the trouble some of you D&Gers have
gone too so as not to define that current favourite term of theory the Body-
Without-Organs, and even those who do attempt a definition (I thought Adens
a helpful and unpretentious post) always add that the BwO is similar to the 
God of Negative Theology in that it really can't be defined.
How useful a term is it then if everytime you use you must therefore need
to state what *you* mean by it. The whole thing reminds me of those heady days
of post-structuralist delirium when the word *deconstruction* was chucked
about as though it were a cure for cancer.
Anyway, I think the need to discuss the BwO is essential if we're to 
suss out how useful this whole D&G thing is anyway.
Cheers SIMON

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