incorporeal

is a surface effect. This is to say that, for example, though a 'battle' is made up of individual screams and cries and wounds, we must also say that the 'battle' itself is a kind of floating entity which is everywhere apparent and nowhere localizable. This latter viewpoint is the viewpoint of the incorporeal.

a battle may be viewed exclusively in terms of bodies those of the combatants, of their weapons, their cries, their wounds but there is also a sense in which 'the battle' itself is an incorporeal surface effect produced by the bodies, a kind of floating entity which is everywhere apparent and nowhere localizable' (Bogue 1989 69). THE INCORPOREAL IS THE SURFACE EFFECTS THAT HAUNT BODIES. 'the surface effects that haunt bodies

is the surface effects that haunt bodies.

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incorporeal