ABSTRACT
This paper is about the simulation of the body in healing processes enabled through the flows and channels of people assembling in hospitals and other medical facilities. This paper argues that the human body is an exfoliating circulation of signs and it is in the nature of the body that it produces an excess of signs than it signifies. If looked upon as a semiotic assemblage, the process of illness and healing can be understood as metamorphoses of the body. The severe tests and strains to which the body has been subjected in the wake of the pandemic gives us reason to argue that hospitals and other medical facilities serve as deterritorialized spaces where people desire not specifically a cure or relief from the sickness, but assemblages that can form masses and vice versa to overrun the epidemic. This results in contingent over-comings of the illness. The hospitals, therefore, come to function more as nodal points in the circulation of the signs emanating from the human body, than as designated locations in a chain of relations linking them to the geography or territory with a social corpus
