TERM AND TRANSLATION

body without organs (BwO)

corps sans organes (CsO)body without organs (BwO)

The established 无器官身体 is used in compact form; CsO/BwO accompanies first use for cross-searching French and English sources.

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Atlas working translation

无器官身体

French term
corps sans organes (CsO)
English term
body without organs (BwO)
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Variants and search terms

  • 无器官的身体Simplified record
  • 无器官之躯Simplified record
  • 无器官形体Simplified record
  • 无器官体Simplified record
  • 無器官身體Traditional record
  • 無器官的身體Traditional record
  • 無器官形體Traditional record
  • body without organsCommon / non-Chinese record
  • BwOCommon / non-Chinese record
  • CsOCommon / non-Chinese record
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Conceptual boundary

The body without organs is an experiment with imposed organization; Deleuze and Guattari explicitly identify the risks of emptiness, cancerous formation, and death.

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Sources and translations

  1. 01
    Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, L’Anti-Œdipe, Minuit, 1972

    French primary text for desiring-production and machinic concepts.

  2. 02
    Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Mille plateaux, Minuit, 1980

    French primary text for assemblage, rhizome, becoming, territory, and the body without organs.

  3. 03
    《资本主义与精神分裂(卷2):千高原》,姜宇辉译,上海书店出版社,2010

    Published Mainland translation used to compare Deleuze–Guattari terminology.

  4. 04
    “德勒兹词典”中文社区语料

    Community index for discovering regional and historical variants.

    Open external source ↗
  5. 05
    Time-Image Research Atlas terminology policy, v1

    Atlas terms govern prose, aliases remain searchable, and original-language forms accompany first use.

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