Social Body Quotes

Society is our extended mind and body.

Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.

What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as a negative instance whose function is repression

How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?

The social body persists although the component cells may change.

Like a physical body, a body politic must have an immune system that resists anti-Semitism and other forums of hatred.

It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.

The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.

There cannot be an animal body without a territorial body: three bodies are grafted over each other: the territorial body - the planet, the social body - the couple, and the animal body - you and me. And technology splits this unity, leaving us without a sense of where we are. This, too, is de-realization.