A Schizoanalytic Reading of Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life
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Body without organs, bricolage-identification, deterritorializationAbstract
The concept of Assemblage appeared obviously in Postdramatic works, where a character or a text may stand as an assemblage of potentialities in the sense that it signifies unidentified subjectivity. Assemblages are constituted essentially of heterogeneous elements yet fused without specific demarcations. In order to enjoy the desired productivity at a "smooth pace," the regularities of political and societal institutionalization are disseminated. To achieve this dissemination, Deleuze-Guattari suggest an unsatiated platform of a "Body without Organs' (BwO), where desire escapes identification. Martin Crimp (b. 1956) defines his off-stage characters in Attempts on Her Life (1997), Anne, or whatever the name is, as a 'BwO', upon which Anne evolves narratively as a collection of heterogeneous elements from the character's milieu to constitute a schizophrenic character who cannot be defined or grasped by the Capitalist reins.
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