An amalgamation of quotes and ideas on the nature of language
Words are saturated with time. We are saturated with words for we are temporal beings. Language is not merely a system of semiotics, it doesn't merely represent the world. Rather it constructs it, performs it, creates it and destroys it. It morphs aspects of our reality and forces them to filter through its phonetic and conceptual prisms. If language performs, then the dictionary of all possible words is the cosmos. Welcome to the world of language, the reality in which we live...
Sunday, March 21, 2010
In the beginning...
From Jean Baudrillard
"In the beginning was the Word. It was only afterwards that Silence came.
The end itself has disappeared...."
on the topic of the disappearance of the real into the virtual
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. All things were created through Him, and apart from Him not one thing was created that has been created. Life was in Him [the Word], and that life was the light of men. That light shines in the darkness, yet the darkness did not overcome it. [...] The Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We observed His glory, the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth."
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. All things were created through Him, and apart from Him not one thing was created that has been created. Life was in Him [the Word], and that life was the light of men. That light shines in the darkness, yet the darkness did not overcome it. [...] The Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We observed His glory, the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth."
ReplyDelete- The Gospel of John (1:1-14)