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...

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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