Here, after all, we encounter the manifestation of “dark or hidden powers (um ging) of the body,” like the “death touch” (dim mak) of mantis practitioners, the telepathic ability to read the opponent, external force transmission, and the inexplicable ability to become very heavy.30 These are techniques du corps, technologies of the body, “inherent in our molecular animality but hidden by our molar [or molecular] human form.”
