body without organs
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The "body without organs" is a key Deleuzian-Guattarian philosophical concept describing a non-organized, intensive field of potential that resists hierarchical structuring and fixed identities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| body without organs canonical | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Deleuzian-Guattarian concept
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philosophical concept ⓘ |
| clarifiedIn |
A Thousand Plateaus
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surface form:
A Thousand Plateaus, "How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Organs?"
|
| describedIn |
A Thousand Plateaus
ⓘ
Anti-Oedipus ⓘ |
| firstFormulatedIn | 1972 ⓘ |
| firstFormulatedInWork | Anti-Oedipus ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
anti-organismic
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field of potential ⓘ impersonal ⓘ intensive field ⓘ non-organized ⓘ non-stratified ⓘ plane of consistency ⓘ pre-personal ⓘ resists fixed identities ⓘ resists hierarchical structuring ⓘ |
| hasCreator |
Félix Guattari
ⓘ
Gilles Deleuze ⓘ |
| hasInterpretation |
field of virtual intensities
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limit of stratified subjectivity ⓘ process of de-organizing the organism ⓘ |
| hasMode |
cancerous BwO
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empty BwO ⓘ full BwO ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary political theory
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critical theory ⓘ performance studies ⓘ post-structuralist theory ⓘ queer theory ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Antonin Artaud ⓘ |
| misinterpretedAs | literal destruction of the body ⓘ |
| opposedTo |
organism
ⓘ
Oedipus complex ⓘ
surface form:
psychoanalytic Oedipus
signifying subject ⓘ |
| partOf |
Deleuzian metaphysics
ⓘ
Continental philosophy ⓘ
surface form:
Deleuzian ontology
schizoanalysis ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
assemblage
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desiring-production ⓘ intensity ⓘ multiplicity ⓘ plane of immanence ⓘ rhizome ⓘ |
| usedAs |
conceptual operator in aesthetics
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conceptual operator in political philosophy ⓘ tool of schizoanalytic practice ⓘ |
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