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>The obese is also in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy, his hypeneality.
>He exceeds his own pathology. This is why he escapes both dietetics and psychotherapy, and goes back to that other logic, that exponential strategy where things deprived of their finality or of their reference redouble each other in a kind of hall of mirrors.
Obesity would thus be a good example of the turn of events lying in wait for all of us, this revolution in things which lies no longer in their dialectical transcendence (.Aujhebung) but rather in their potentialization (Steigerung), in their elevation to the second power, to the nth power—in that ascension to extremes related to the absence of rules for the game.
>Like speed—which is the sole perfect expression of mobility, because it is unlike movement (which has meaning or direction)— obesity no longer has any meaning or direction either; it goes nowhere and no longer has anything to do with movement: it is the ecstasy of movement. Thus there is something about the body, of which, in its aberration, obesity may be the perfect confirmation and ecstatic truth, because in it the body, instead of being reflected, captures itself in its own magnifying mirror. “Only tautological sentences are perfectly true,” says Canetti.
Jean Baudrillard, Figures of the Transpolitical in Fatal Strategies