The Problem of the Body in Deleuze and Guattari, Or, What Can a Body Do?

Body and Society 3 (3):73-91 (1997)
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You never reach the Body without Organs, you can't reach it, you are forever attaining it, it is a limit. People ask, So what is this BwO? - But you're already on it, scurrying like vermin, grouping like a blind person, or running like a lunatic: desert traveller and nomad of the steppes. On it we sleep, live our waking lives, fight - fight and are fought - seek our place, experience untold happiness and fabulous defeats; on it we penetrate and are penetrated; on it we love. (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987: 150)

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Difference and repetition.Gilles Deleuze - 1994 - London: Athlone Press.
Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism.Elizabeth Grosz - 1994 - St. Leonards, NSW: Indiana University Press.

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