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The body must be regarded as a site of social, political, cultural and geographical inscriptions, production or constitution. The body is not opposed to culture, a resistant throwback to a natural past; it is itself a cultural, the cultural product.

Elizabeth Grosz

Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own

Elizabeth Grosz

Elizabeth Grosz

Elizabeth Grosz

Born: October 14, 1952 (age 73)

Bio: Elizabeth Grosz is a professor at Duke University. She has written on French philosophers, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray and Gilles Deleuze.

Known for:

Volatile bodies (1994)
Chaos, territory, art (2008)
Space, time, and perversion (1995)
Jacques Lacan: a feminist introduction (1990)

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