The Body (n.) is a directional force and mode of desire. As a condition of access to the world, it is a being comported beyond itself, referring to the world and thereby revealing its own ontological status as a referential reality.
The Body (n.) is a key site of social and sexual subversion rather than being a taken-for-granted base and indicator of sexual preference.
The Body (n.) is a manifestation of political regulation. The true gender of the body emerges in a retroactive loop in that it internalizes and incorporates cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity and rematerializes it on the body as natural.
The Body (n.) is always preceded by discourse such that: The body posited as prior to the sign is always posited or signified as prior. And yet, the body cannot be reduced to discourse and always exceeds it.
The Body (n.) is an assemblage where some parts of the body become conceivable foci for pleasure.
The Body (n.) is fundamentally dependent and vulnerable. Thus, as human bodies, we are beings defined by the fact that we are at risk of losing those to whom we are attached, and we are at risk of becoming instruments of violence.
The Body (n.) is fundamentally vulnerable. A body is both dependent upon others and subject to violation by another, by others. Through our bodies we always remain exposed to others. Our very vulnerability ties us to others.
The Body (n.) is not an independent materiality that is invested by power relations external to it, but it is that for which materialization and investiture are coextensive. It is constantly in the process of 'bounding, forming, and deforming, which is animated by a set of founding prohibitions.
The Body (n.) is produced and crafted every time we implicitly or explicitly use the language of discursive construction.
The Body (n.) is that which, words alone have the power to construct at the intersection of ideas regarding sexuality, gender, biology, and nature, and the body itself.
The Body (n.) is unable to serve as an ontological foundation because, ultimately, it is discursive.