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, 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

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