Antonin Artaud
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Antoine Maria Joseph Paul Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French artist who worked across a variety of media. He is best known for his writings, as well as his work in the theatre and ci
Artaud in 1926
Self-portrait of Artaud from 1947
Body without organs
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The body without organs is a fuzzy concept used in the work of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The concept describes the unregulated potential of a body without organizational s
Antonin Artaud
…also had a significant influence on philosophers.:22 Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari borrowed Artaud's phrase "the body without organs" to describe their conception of the virtual dimension of the body and, ultimately, the basic substratum of reality in their Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Philosopher Jacques Derrida…
A schizoanalytical diagram of the social dynamic of the body without organs, from Anti-Oedipus.
The development of a bird egg; the egg is a prominent figure of the body without organs in Capitalism and Schizophrenia.