The whole of (social) space proceeds from the body, even thought it so metamorphizes the body that it may forget it altogether- even though it may separate itself so radically from the body as to kill it. The genesis of a far-away order the state ? the global? can be accounted for only on the basis of the order that is nearest to us-namely, the order of the body. Within the body itself, spatially considered, the successive levels constituted by the senses(from the sense of smell to sight, treated as different within a differentiated field) prefigure the layers of social space and their interconnections. The passive body (the senses) and the active body (labour) converge in space. The analyses of rhythms must serve the necessary and inevitable restoration of the total body. This is what makes "rhythm analysis" so important.(1991a:405)


Western philosophy has betrayed the body; it has actively participated in the great process of metaphorization that has abandoned the body; and it has denied the body. The living body, being
at once "subject" and "object", cannot tolerate such conceptual division, and consequently philosophical concepts fall into the category of the "sign of non-body". Under the reign of King Logos, the reign of true space, the mental and the social were sundered, as were the directly lived and the conceived, and the subject and the object. New attempts were forever being made to reduce the external to the internal, or the social to the mental, by means of one ingenious typology or another. Net result? Complete failure! Abstract spatiality and practical spatiality contemplated one another from afar, in thrall to the visual realm( 1991a:407) syf 52