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...

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Idealogical Becoming of a Human Being

The ideological becoming of a human being . . . is the process of selectively
assimilating the words of others.
(Bakhtin 1981c: 341)
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Many Coherent Selves

Since many stories can be told, even of the same event, then we each have many
possible coherent selves.
(Davies and Harre´ 1999: 49)
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Master of Man

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man

Heidegger
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