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, 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
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