Notes on the body w/o organs

4 of 13 in Notes on the body w/o organsGive me an example of a BwO: “eyes closed tight, nostrils pinched shut, ears stopped up” (pp. 37-38). Why is the BwO closed off? D&G define the BwO as a paranoid machine: a machine of primary repression. This paranoiac is hypersensitive, it suffers from desiring-machines, and [...]

6 of 13 in Notes on the body w/o organsIf a BwO doesn’t produce anything, how does it function? The two aspects of the BwO that most interest D&G are its function of recording and its apparent miraculous form, that is, the appearance of miracles. “The body without organs, the unproductive, the unconsumable, serves as [...]

8 of 13 in Notes on the body w/o organsDesire and subjectivity? Where did you go? Is the BwO a real body or some sort of metaphor for capitalism? Well, D&G don’t really beleive in metaphor. No representation. No modeling or mini. For D&G, we are always “becoming.” So, in essense, we become capital and [...]

10 of 13 in Notes on the body w/o organsIn A Thousand Plateaus (ATP), the BwO is depicted as productive – independent of goal-directed workings of the capitalist political economy, and irreducible to the Freudian mommy-daddy-me triangle. Invoking the BwO, D&G offer a different way of thinking about the body that contrasts with the notion [...]