Territory is imagined in corporeal terms. The body politic is a projection of the human body. Panic at the border.

Mexicans imagined to be creeping into the American body (politic). Walls a defense against rape. Paranoia. Hysteria.

Body experience shapes discourse. The body speaks it's own language from within the intestines or duodenum or anus ("Let me hear your body talk"). "Language" the dependent variable.

Cultural collapse = fragmentation of the American body politic. All the King's horses and all the King's men--can't put Humpty-Dumpty back together again.