BLAH
Date Issued
September 29, 2020
Type
Μεταπτυχιακή Διπλωματική Εργασία
Abstract
As a terrestrial being, I experience the Earth through my own corporeality. Gravity
is the main source of my identity and shapes the way I construct the world and
myself.
The same does language - the arbitrary system through which I express myself,
extract meaning, give myself an identity , interact with my fellow human beings and
shape my reality. Gravity and language are the most present concepts of
force(power) that I experience as physical and social materiality. One belongs to
physics and the other to metaphysics - both predominantly dominant.
The attraction of the earth prevents the mysterious universe from swallowing me
and creates the frame in which I exist. Language does the same by offering the
ontological framework through which I distribute and categorize this enormous
continuum which I call reality but at the same time remains an arbitrary
conventional system which is a derivative from its own self.
Air is the main element of speech, but also the element that encompases its own
negation and shapes my relationship to the absent. It functions as a means by
which thought becomes a voice and acquires its immaterial materiality or as the
interval between gravity and antigravity, logic and nonsense, and here opens the
discussion of what makes a subject and what makes an object.
According to Michel Serres, the noise of the vocal expression that drives the mouth
is suppressed by its linguistic functions. The social and linguistic structure of
language comes to tune the mouth, locating it in a grammar of expressions, which
is mainly associated with the function of speech.
Gilles Deleuze in the "Manifesto of Nonsense" in 1960 presented the case of
nonsense as the ultimate being of language, reaching the same conclusion as
many other thinkers. Russian Futurism, Dadaism, early Avant Garde,
Postmodernism, Post-structuralism, etc. insisted on finding ways to liberate
language from the structures of preconceived meaning or even eliminate, totally,
every linguistic sense.
What they all suggest is to take a closer look to the nonsensical vocality, the
primary body of every linguistic signification, the messy basis of the wording, the
noise underneath the speech. But this is a process that emboldens one in
negotiating the intensities of being a subject and perhaps the approach of the
speaking subject requires a deeper creativity and a certain amount of playfulness
and lightness in order to enable new types of reflection and understanding.
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