Mol: "The flesh is stubborn"
 

Although "the experience of one's own physicality from the inside does not precede culture," (25) it is also not the case that just "anything could be produced or constructed"
 
"the flesh is stubborn. It is stubborn as long as it is alive, but even so it is a historical phenomenon. And its historicity is not a mere matter of interpretations changing, but of the very fleshiness of being alive itself."

> from Annemarie Mol's The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (2002)

> tagged with #culture, #body

> created June 17, 2021 at 12:16:23 PM


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