Cinema Without Organs is an interdisciplinary zine that features essays from artists and scholars who explore cinema as a site for possibility. Cinema Without Organs riffs on French philosopher, Gilles Deleuze, and French psychoanalyst, Félix Guattari’s interpretation of the Body Without Organs. The Body Without Organs is a term originally coined by French artist, Antonin Artaud. For Deleuze and Guattari specifically, though, the Body Without Organs is a site for possibility — a place where experimentation and disorganization disrupts structure (the structured body) to create something new.

For Deleuze and Guattari, ‘the body’ can be generally applied to humans or non-humans or things that can be conceived as animate or inanimate. Cinema, for instance, can be viewed as a type of body.  

Cinema Without Organs exists in that spirit. Cinema, like a human body, is not a homogonous entity that can be reduced to its organs, or the rules that conventionally govern its practices. Cinema is amorphous. Therefore, as a zine, Cinema Without Organs is a platform for artists and scholars, through their writing, to explore cinema, both formally and narratively, as a site for possibility.

You can get a copy of the zine, Cinema Without Organs, by sending $7 to the Venmo account @Nick-Karpinski-1. In the Venmo payment description, please include your name, email, and mailing address and a copy will be shipped to you. Contact: nickkarpinski16@gmail.com