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...

Monday, August 30, 2010

Immanence called Language

Everywhere-even deep in Lacan's "lettered unconscious", more dense
than a black hole in space-everywhere we encounter that immanence
called Language, with all it's literary ambiguities, epistemic
conundrums, and political distractions.

-Hassan

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Communicating the Universe

"By Universe I mean the aggregate of all humanity's consciously
apprehended and communicated experiences. Wherefore I realized that all the words in all dictionaries are the consequent tools of all men's conscious and conscientious attempts to communicate all their experiences- which is of course to communicate
Universe."

Buckminster Fuller

Friday, August 13, 2010

The Articulation of What Is

Language might become a medium of ontological disclosure in which
things take on being through words and in postmodern thinking, truth
might transcend the merely pragmatic dimension; it might become the
loyal articulation, in language, of what is.....

-Palmer

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Inflected with Biases

New Historicists in general share this modus operandi, insisting that every expressive act engages and participates in a system of material and ideological practices, that no neutral position is possible, that language itself is unavoidably inflected with particular biases and perspectives, that to express is not merely to represent, but to act, to change, and to distort.

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