Body Without Organs

This is a brief introduction to Deleuze and Guattari’s notoriously fuzzy concept, the Body Without Organs. We first discuss D&G's unique version of materialism founded on desire and reproduction. We then outline what the Body without Organs is not: Organism, Signification, and Subjectification. To further elucidate the concept, we provide some helpful examples like Genetic Mutation, the Egg, Chess Boards, and John Carpenter’s The Thing.

We argue that the body without organs is more easily understood as the Body Without Organization, the body as a virtual set of chaotic possibilities and potentials that resists organization.