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is the most indisputable materialization of class taste in that one's hairstyle, clothing, diet, and even gait function as signs within a larger system of social positions.

According to Bourdieu, 'the body is the most indisputable materialization of class taste' in that one's hairstyle, clothing, diet, and even gait function as signs within a larger system of social positions.24 Bourdieu acknowledges that bodies are biological, yet stresses that they are inherently unfinished, becoming transformed (imbued with marks of social class) within society. Arguably, Bourdieu's most significant contribution to body theory is his conception of the body as a form of physical capital. As such, the body is a resource to greater or lesser degrees, and can be converted into economic, cultural, and social capital.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never. (Hermann Hesse)

is a body with reflexes and anticipatory qualities, a body that is constantly in-becoming

Rather, echoing his late philosopher friend, Deleuze, Virilio enthuses that the energized human body is a body ‘with reflexes and anticipatory qualities, a body that is constantly in-becoming’