hypotheses
no more, no less.
1. instrumentalizing language ("rhetoric") collapses into relations of power all of the potentialities of language to create/support/found* and make meaningful (and meaningfully different) relations upon something (anything) other than power.
2. language moves relations between beings out of the realm of clean and simple doing/being-done-to dichotomies (force, im-personal "nature") and into a realm of (radical?) indistinction and ambiguity, wherein minds can co-operate (inter-personal world).
3. ambiguity, often feared as the enemy of meaning, ends up being the very possibility of meaning.
*"found" is always a problematic word, but i can't think of a nonproblematic one that suits my purpose as well.
just started reading giorgio agamben's homo sacer.
1. instrumentalizing language ("rhetoric") collapses into relations of power all of the potentialities of language to create/support/found* and make meaningful (and meaningfully different) relations upon something (anything) other than power.
2. language moves relations between beings out of the realm of clean and simple doing/being-done-to dichotomies (force, im-personal "nature") and into a realm of (radical?) indistinction and ambiguity, wherein minds can co-operate (inter-personal world).
3. ambiguity, often feared as the enemy of meaning, ends up being the very possibility of meaning.
*"found" is always a problematic word, but i can't think of a nonproblematic one that suits my purpose as well.
just started reading giorgio agamben's homo sacer.