The body becomes an anagram dispersed across wounds and automobile metallurgy

Evidence

Technology is never grasped except in the (automobile) accident, that is to say in the violence done to technology itself and in the violence done to the body. It is the same: any shock, any blow, any impact, all the metallurgy of the accident can be read in the semiurgy of the body - neither an anatomy nor a physiology, but a semiurgy of contusions, scars, mutilations, wounds that are so many new sexual organs opened on the body. In this way, gathering the body as labor in the order of production is opposed to the dispersion of the body as anagram in the order of mutilation. Goodbye “erogeneous zones”: everything becomes a hole to offer itself to the discharge reflex. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 365

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘semiurgy’ and opposes the laboring body (production) to the anagrammatic body (mutilation).
• XREF: connects to: The interiorized prosthesis collapses the body into self-replicating formula. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 341; Wounds and scars function as symbolic surfaces for exchanging bodily signs — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 372; A destroyed vehicle can register visually as a corpse-like death — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 465 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Wounds and scars function as symbolic surfaces for exchanging bodily signs #expands (0.85) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 372
• Illness makes the lived body appear as an object, a given substance. #corroborates (0.80)
• A destroyed vehicle can register visually as a corpse-like death #corroborates (0.78) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 465
• The body schema extends to include tools like cars and hats #expands (0.78) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 735
• Violence is force that marks and transforms its object #corroborates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1817
• Physical suffering is instrumentalized to annihilate the human person through the body #corroborates (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1017