Manuel Abreu
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Ben Marcus:
What, if any, is the relation between language's reduction-to-concept function and the trope in your work of language being physically harmful to use/experience?
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there are many ways in which the thing I am trying in vain to say may be tried in vain to be said - Beckett Language acts as an acid over its message. If you no longer care about an idea or a feeling, then put it into language. - Marcus You also describe it as 'a more sophisticated way to cry'. Do you think this understanding of the self-defeating telos of language is a necessary evil?
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