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Strange Foreign Bodies
[excerpt]

 

 

Jean-Luc Nancy

translated by Liz Wendelbo

 

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A Reading of the Seminar From an Other to the other IV
J
- A MILLER

The Other Side of Lacan
J
- A MILLER

The Son's Aleatory Identity in Today's World
A
LAIN BADIOU

The Imgage in the Fantasy
L
ILIA MAHJOUB

Madness and Structure in Jacques Lacan
M
ASSIMO RECALCATI

Strange Foreign Bodies
J
EAN-LUC NANCY

Why Lacan Is Not a Heideggerian
S
LAVOJ ZIZEK

Cecily Brown
Doug Aitken
J
OSEFINA AYERZA

Demand image

 

The body exposes itself to the depths of its guts, between the fibers of its muscles and along its vessels. It exposes the inside to the outside and always escapes further, deeper into the abyss that it is. However this is the truth of the world: it comes out of nothing, it is created, which means that it is unproduced, unformed, and not constructed. It is an alteration and a spasm of nihil. The world is an explosion and an expansion of an exposure (which can be called “truth”, or “meaning”). The chasm of the body and of the world exposes exposure to itself—and with it, the impossibility to finally bring the world to the spirit, and bring meaning to significance.
The body is a strangeness which is not preceded by familiarity.

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Art: Thomas Demand
Embassy VII - C-print on diasec, 2007
courtesy 303 Gallery, NYC.

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