2008년 3월 12일 수요일

Bodies without Bodies

This title, Bodies without Bodies, definitely seems to be a nonsense like a riddle. At first I didn't understand what the question exactly is. What is bodies without bodies? What does Susan Melrose want to say through this title? After reading her article, I am not sure. Susan Melrose, here, introduces Spinoza, Deleuze and Zizek. All of these are famous philosophers. Deleuze first used the term, 'Body without Organs', and it was also from Spinoza's philosophy. Later Zizek renamed it as 'Organs without Bodies'. And here, Susan re-renamed it 'Bodies without Bodies'. These similar four have one common thing in thinking. They tried to escape the older and common meaning and make something new(maybe they think it's better). So Susan used in her article 'writing' instead of 'concept' that is already fixed and common, familiar to us. Throughout this article she refers to such processes that renames 'bodies' as 'new work'. That is, 'new work' is different with the olders, and the measure(judgement) of it is up to 'time'. I think this would be true for every work that makes something new and different. Her message that I got from this article is actually there are no bodies when we use the term 'bodies'. Maybe she wants us to think of 'a body(new, non-existed one)' not 'the body(old, existed one)'.

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