Body Without Organs

Etymology : Body + without + Organs
Function : noun

1. The "Body without Organs" or BwO is a term Deleuze and Guattari have taken from Antonin Artaud which consists of an assemblage or body with no underlying organizational principles, and hence no organs within it. The BwO is a post-Enlightenment entity, a body but not an organism. [1]

Associated words + links
State
Rhizome
Nomadic People
War Machine
Schizoanalysis

Bibliography

1. "A Thousand Plateaus", Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Guattari

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Plateaus

(Verena Vogler, 11/12/2007 )
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