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...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Architecture of The Invisible
There is the visible, concrete world. We label it with words and usually have little problems when it comes to translation across languages. But there is also another world, the invisible world, lined with its own architecture. These forms and relations we label with words but fail to translate. It is this world that is constructed by language.
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