Cloaca artificialiter

Deleuze and Guattari propose the body without organs (BwO) in Anti-Oedipus:

"It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id. Everywhere it is machines – real ones, not figurative ones: machines driving other machines, machines being driven by other machines, with all the necessary couplings and connections. An organ-machine is plugged into an energy-source-machine: the one produces a flow that the other interrupts. The breast is a machine that produces milk, and the mouth a machine coupled to it."

The more interesting, and nosologically accurate concept is the organ without body (OwB). Cloaca is an artwork by Wim Delvoye exhibited in the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in 2002. It is a machine that is fed twice a day (restaurants including Markt and Savoy prepared meals for it), and sends the food through a series of stages which recapitulate the human digestive process...amylase, hydrochloric acid, pancreatic enzymes...and produces something that smells, apparently, very much like shit.