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...

Friday, July 9, 2010

A little death sentence

Language is not life; it gives life orders. Life does not speak; it
listens and waits. Every order-word, even a father's to his son,
carries a little death sentence-a Judgement, as Kafka put it.

Deleuze

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Made to obey

Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel
obedience

Deleuze

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