condition (record/cover): EX /EX- (minimal creasing)

Paste-on cover. 2 insert included.

Amor Fati is Amaury Perez, and Body W/O Organs is his 1985 LP debut, self-released on his Flesh Records imprint in an edition of a thousand copies with a dedication (printed in the sleeve) "to Nietzsche, Artaud, Dali, Camus and my brother." The album title and the project's own name are drawn in sequence from Nietzsche's amor fati (love of one's fate) and the corps sans organes concept that Deleuze and Guattari inherited from Artaud and rebuilt across their two-volume Capitalism and Schizophrenia.

Structure follows philosophy. Across fourteen short pieces (originally distilled from a longer cassette version), Perez assembles a post-industrial vaudeville of percussion, processed voice, found audio, and recitation. Track titles operate as theoretical aphorisms: "Destruction Of A Desiring Machine," "I Am...," "The Politics Of The Family," "Übermensch," "Untimely Meditations," "Man W/O Organs." The A-side label was supposed to carry a photograph of a vagina; the pressing plant refused on "moral grounds" and left the label blank, with the original image included on an insert and a note suggesting buyers paste it on themselves.

Three inserts and a sixteen-page booklet of collaged medical imagery, typed theoretical fragments, and handwritten notes accompanied the original copies. Even the equipment list is on the record sleeve ("a $15 Radio Shack slim-line mike was used..."), and the cost of pressing itemised in detail. A thoroughly realised DIY object from a corner of the mid-Eighties underground more common in theory than in recorded practice.