“If the female anorexic isn’t consciously manipulative, then she’s tragic: shedding pounds in a futile attempt to erase her female body, which is the only part of her that’s irreducible and defining.”
— Chris Kraus in Aliens & Anorexia

Biotechnology; biotic
Biomechanics

“the cadaver is a representation of itself, where the real and its signifier become the same; the body is dead and finally becomes its own authentic picture”

of the nature of the physical body; bodily;

is not an event but a state; death is inorganic nature. Life arose from this ­inert primordial condition and its instinct is to return there.

“to disappear is the quickest route to being truly admirable.”

earth