AA Jogging Baudrillard on running

 Jogging is another activity in the thrall of the performance principle. […] The pleasure (or pain) of jogging has nothing to do either with sport or with the body in its fleshly reality: it is the pleasure not of pure physical exertion but of of a dematerialization, of an endless functioning. 

The body of the jogger is like one of Tinguely’s machine: ascesis and ecstasis of the performance principle. Making the body run soon gives way, moreover, to letting the body run: the body is hypnotized by its own performance and goes on running on its own, in the absence of a subject, like somnambulist and celibate machine.