Wednesday, December 16, 2009

the parasited:

In part 3 of Parasite


Effort manifestations -

animals/ simple effort manifestations - restricted series of effort combinations form the typical body shapes and movement habits of different species, maintained throughout long generations. *micheal serres, parastie part3- reversible worlds (without the parasite) vs. irreversible worlds. (with the parasite).
[how does the movement change when parasited?]


"Gender is a “corporeal style,” an act (or a

sequence of acts), a “strategy” which has cultural

survival as its end, since those who do

not “do” their gender correctly are punished

by society (GT: 139–40); it is a repetition, a

copy of a copy and, crucially, the gender parody

Butler describes does not presuppose the

existence of an original, since it is the very

notion of an original that is being parodied

(GT: 138). Salih, Sara. "On Judith Butler and Performitivity"




The corporation is the collective of singular bodies, becoming one body. The oldest reference of the corporation is the Guilds in the Middle Ages. Everyone born into the Baker family, for instance is prescribed to learn to bake and as they are part of the Guild, (corporation) they are primarily known as a baker..


 The singular body when divided from the collective body, takes on the identity of the collective body. The singular body is born from the collective body, from generation to generation. 


Today, it seems the collective body is born from a singular body or idea. When a person wishes to 'incorporate', it is often a legal means to reduce income taxes, and liability etc. but the ideas embodied in the new incorporation are those of the singular founder.


Now, what is interesting is the idea of incorporation and the collective body as one. What comes with this body? There is the human bodies which make but the corporation, but also the building 

(institute) built to house these people.


The White House for instance, is just as much part of the constituional Republic as the gourning body within.


It comes back to a question of identity which becomes exteriorized to the out- of-incorporated being, but this identity indeed impermiates the corporation (I'm a Baker) and parasites the corporations program.

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