It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.
Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.
Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.
Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.
It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.
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