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“We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”
— Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

all i had was the tongue in my head

Stephen Fry

I'm the kind of person who when it comes to, say, something like language or just communicating on a daily basis, I feel like I'm trying to put an ocean through a straw

Björk
feelings english doesn't have
by Juliana Castro
82 blocks • 3 days ago
| Susan Griffin, Red Shoes
| Susan Griffin, Red Shoes

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

But as words gain useful new meanings, over time, they can also lose precision.

Gaslighting is now “thrown out anytime someone’s perception on something is challenged,” said Shantel Gabrieal Buggs, a sociologist at Florida State University. “Emotional labor” was once used to refer to a workplace burden; today, it’s an umbrella term for unpleasant household tasks.

Engravings by Trystan Williams
Engravings by Trystan Williams

DELEUZE ON HAVING DIALOGUES

It is already hard enough to understand what someone is saying. Discussion is just an exercise in narcissism where everyone takes turns showing off. Very quickly, you no longer have any idea what is being discussed (TWO REGIMES OF MADNESS, 384).

Every philosopher runs away when he or she hears someone say, “Let’s discuss this.” (WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY, 28)

Communication always comes too early or too late, and when it comes to creating, conversation is always superfluous (WIP, 28).

Discussion amounts to wasting a lot of time on indeterminate problems. Conversation is something else entirely. Conversation is quite necessary. But the slightest conversation is a highly schizophrenic exercise happening between two individuals with common resources and a taste for ellipse and verbal shortcuts. Conversation is composed of immobility interspersed with long silences; it can give you ideas. But discussion has no place in philosophical work (TRM, 384, translation modified by me).