2025-06-07_G Spivak on the body

“… I would say that biology, a biology, is one way of thinking the systematicity of the body. The body, like all other things, cannot be thought, as such. Like all other things, I have never tried to approach the body as such. I do take the extreme ecological view that the body as such has no possible outline. You know, again, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, where Marx, talking about species life, says nature is the great body without organs. You know, if one really thinks of the body as such, there is no possible outline of the body as such. I think that’s about what I would say. There are thinkings of the systematicity of the body, there are value codings of the body. The body, as such, cannot be thought, and I certainly cannot approach it.”

• In a Word interview, pg. 149, emphasis added