Incorporeal Transformation Incorporeal Transformation As was briefly mentioned in the previous post on haecceities , language has enormous power to affect the world. One of its key functions, one that particularly interests Deleuze and Guattari, is its power to effect incorporeal transformations . This power seems to be inherent to the nature of language, given that language is composed, in its entirety, of order words .
Language is neither informational nor communicational.
Language orders us to see the world according to its own model. Given the proper social force a judge's sentence, for example, can literally transform an innocent citizen into a criminal, with all the negative effects that accrue to that order-word. For Catholics, the priest's words literally transform bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ. Thus, the judge draws upon the assemblage of state power to effect an incorporeal transformation with his order-words, and then it is so . The world has been changed by language.