“the more than us in us that is at that moment irreducible to meaning or satisfaction”
“our repeated baffling by the trauma of a Real”
-Peter Schwenger-
“the ordinary is not ordinary; it is extra-ordinary, uncanny”
WORDS AND THE MURDER OF THE THING
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“What hope do I have of attaining the thing that I push away?
My hope lies in the materiality of language, in the fact that words are things too…A name ceases to be the ephemeral passing of nonexistence and becomes a concrete ball, a solid mass of existence; language, abandoning the sense, the meaning which was all it wanted to be, tries to become senseless”
Polysemic Stupor 