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, April 25, 2010

An Ancient City

"Our language can be seen as an ancient city, a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses and of houses with additions from different periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses"
-Lyotard
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