Give me a body then: this is the formula of philosophical reversal. The body is no longer the obstacle that seperates thought from itself, that which it has to overcome to reach thinking. It is on the contrary that which it plunges into or mus plunge inteo in order to reach the unthought, that is life. Not that the body thinks, but, obstinate and stubborn, it forces us to think, and forces us to think what is concealed from thought, life. Life will no longer be made to appear before the categories of thought; thought will be thrown into the categories of life. The categories of life are precisely the attitudes of the body, its postures. 'We do not even know what a body can do': in its sleep, in its drunkenness, in its efforts and resistances.
Cinema2
The Time-Image
Gilles Deleuze
Translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta
The Athlone Press
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