Christ’s bodily degradation doubles as a liberation from organic limits.
Evidence
What, from one perspective, is the utter humiliation and degradation of Jesus’ body is on the other a coldly ruthless vision of the body liberated from the “wisdom and limits of the organism”. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 359
Categorization
- XREF: The ‘wisdom and limits of the organism’ motif echoes Fisher’s recurring cybernetic/deterritorializing vocabulary throughout the collection. — connects to: Extreme bodily abasement is imitative of Christ’s redemptive humiliation of the flesh — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1913; The docile body reveals natural organismic limits that discipline must accommodate. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 237
Broader Connections
- Extreme bodily abasement is imitative of Christ’s redemptive humiliation of the flesh
#expands(0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1913 - The docile body reveals natural organismic limits that discipline must accommodate.
#complicates(0.72) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 237