ABSTRACT
Bodies are constructed through affections – affections and counter-affections, running in sometimes contradictory directions, and making each and every one of them the singular sum of these contradictions: there indeed is nothing natural to this. Whether it is constructed as the vehicle of a "person", or as a "thing" upon which forces can be exercised, the body is never a mere composite of flesh and blood, biologically born out its own cellular development. Every body is an augmented body – a body augmented by the gigantic amount of language, history, values, rules, investments, accessories, etc., that manifest the existence of zones of affection beyond, above, under and so on its mere flesh, bones, blood and nerves. Bodies are cyborgs in many ways: not only do they exceed the limits of the human flesh, but they also blur the boundaries of identity and the difference separating the individual from the collective; in sum: bodies are a fucking nuisance.
