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- Title
''Man Is Ill Because He Is Badly Constructed'': Artaud, Klossowski and Deleuze in Search for the Earth Inside.
- Authors
Dolphijn, Rick
- Abstract
Starting with Antonin Artaud's radio play To Have Done With The Judgement Of God, this article analyses the ways in which Artaud's idea of the body without organs links up with various of his writings on the body and bodily theatre and with Deleuze and Guattari's later development of his ideas. Using Klossowski (or Klossowski's Nietzsche) to explain how the dominance of dialogue equals the dominance of God, I go on to examine how the Son (the facialised body), the Father (Language) and the Holy Spirit (Subjectification), need to be warded off in order to revitalize the body, reuniting it with ''the earth'' it has been separated from. Artaud's writings on Balinese dancing and the Tarahumaran people pave the way for the new body to appear. Reconstructing the body through bodily practices, through religion and above all through art, as Deleuze and Guattari suggest, we are introduced not only to new ways of thinking theatre and performance art, but to life itself.
- Publication
Deleuze Studies, 2011, Vol 5, Issue 1, p18
- ISSN
1750-2241
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.3366/dls.2011.0003