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, December 13, 2010

The object of man's conflicts

In appearance, speech may well be of little account, but prohibitions surrounding it reveal its links with desire and power. This should not be very surprising, for psychoanalysis has already shown us that speech is not merely the medium that manifests-or dissembles- desire; it is also the object of desire. Similarly, historians have constantly impressed upon us that speech is no mere verbalization of conflicts and systems of domination, but that it is the very object of man's conflicts.
-Foucault
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