Body Without Organs

Deleuze places Bacon in the same company as Artaud: they both demonstrate the ability to feel intensive forces acting on the body from either inside or outside (a spasm, contortion).  Bacon locates a way to create emotion through the several layered intensities being extered from the world and through his body (the screaming mouth, the hysterical smile, the inclined head).

From the info-sphere, forces act upon our bodies; a tapping foot in response to music going into your body.  We find ourselves in a somatic relationship to the world as your body begins to show an aesthetic resemblance to the outside forces.

Expressing this relationship to the world is shown through the passage of object through the diagram.  Bacon’s found objects constantly passing through the diagram (as they must) creates a repetitious pattern: his painful mood. 

Whatever Bacon finds in the info-sphere can now be deformed and expressed through an aesthetic/proportional relationship when it passes through his diagram. The continual passage of placing objects in relation to his personal mood, of showing how objects, figures, or events, can express his situation in the world establishes Bacon-as-category.

Bacon now has a systematic approach, by way of passing items/objects/events, through his diagram, which expresses his desire. (a knowing through aesthetic expression).