Cięcie – ćwiczenia z metafizyki ciała
The Cut – Exercises on the Flesh Metaphysics

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses two cases dealing with the issue of the body, its autonomy, and fragility. The first case concerns the decision made by Bettina Göring – whose grandfather was Hermann Göring’s brother. The woman decided to undergo tubal ligation so that her family’s lineage would die out. The second, better-known case is the story of violence in Abu Ghraib prison in 2003, where American soldiers tortured Iraqi prisoners and captured everything in photographs. Both events explain the importance of the potentiality in the body and its economy and prove that the limits of bodily plasticity – both physical and semantic – are shifted further than commonly believed.

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