The body that is usually taken to be an organic entity of flesh and bones is now understood as something that has been stylized and performed by us through the injunctions of cultural prescriptions. Given so many sophisticated theorizations today, it is impossible to look at the body as a pre-social, pre-cultural object. Therefore, the organic body (pre-social) belongs to an older paradigm and the performed body (social) which is the new paradigm today in philosophy and Cultural Studies is a shift from the organic to the discursive. As Barker argues: