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The Body (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a fully material phenomenon defined by equally material affects and intensities such as speeds and various thresholds.

The Body (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠often taken as an organism, that is, an organizational and hierarchical ordering of body parts/organs whereby, say, the mouth, or phallus is the most important. The idea of body as machine, is to think of the body at molecular (as opposed to molar) levels, a body without organs, parts without the hierarchical ordering and organization.

The Body (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠taken as a 'machine' when it is seen not as an internal hierarchy with a head on top, or with the phallus emphasized, but is instead conceived of as parts without the hierarchical ordering and organization.

The Body (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the name for the most basic organ of life. It is a social organ whose structure and limits change in relationship with other bodies. It desires to connect to other organic and inorganic bodies to form assemblages, which are themselves also bodies.

The Body (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠unknown until we know what it can do — which affects it can join with another's, to destroy it, be destroyed, or compose a more powerful body.