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![Similarly, Elizabeth Grosz remarks on what she calls the "depth" of the
body in modern Western societies:
Our [Western] body forms are considered expressions of an inte-
rior, not inscriptions on a flat surface. By constructing a soul or
psyche for itself, the "civilized body" forms libidinal flows, sensa-
tions, experiences, and intensities into needs, wants— The body
becomes a text, a system of signs to be deciphered, read, and
read into. Social law is incarnated, "corporealized"I;] correlatively,
bodies are textualized, read by others as expressive of a subject's
psychic interior. A storehouse of inscriptions and messages be-
tween [the body's] external and internal boundaries... generates
or constructs the body's movements into "behavior," which then
[has] interpersonally and socially identifiable meanings and func-
tions within a social system.5
Consequently, since the body is the bedrock on which the social order
is founded, the body is always in view and on view. As such, it invites
a gaze, a gaze of difference, a gaze of differentiation — the most histori-
cally constant being the gendered gaze. There is a sense in which phrases
such as "the social body" or "the body politic" are not just metaphors
but can be read literally. It is not surprising, then, that when the body
politic needed to be purified in Nazi Germany, certain kinds of bodies
had to be eliminated.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nslywbfs3r2zewlopmywea7m/bafkreiam7r37h5pwj26rh2g5h4tcadv5dqbzshox3kcexwsovqnoktopju)
![When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke. If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them. [Laughter, applause.] The people who are running this planet are insane — they are literally destroying it. I don’t know where they think they’re gonna drink water, breathe air… This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place. And they are making and implementing policies that are destroying the earth in all kinds of ways.
The movement against the kind of global assassination that is going on, in terms of whole countries — because every African country is facing an ecological disaster in terms of becoming deserts, in terms of fuel, Africa is one of the richest continents in the world but its people are the poorest in the world. A lot of that poverty is directly related to the policies of the IMF and the World Bank. Ending those policies is very important not only to Cuba, but to people all over the world who want to see their children grow up and have access to health care, to live somewhere that is not a desert, where they can drink water, where they can breathe air. So I think that movement against the IMF and World Bank policies is one of the most important, most optimistic struggles that is going on at this moment.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nslywbfs3r2zewlopmywea7m/bafkreihz3zg7ehzvogbrbuafniw4e3l6o3t2fhringpldbefysa7zr67am)
