Georges Bataille: “L’informe” (“Formless”) 1929
A dictionary begins when it no longer gives the meaning of words, but their tasks. Thus formless is not only an adjective having a given meaning, but a term that serves to bring things down in the world, generally requiring that each thing have its form. What it designates has no rights in any sense […]
La manoeuvre du langage / The Handling of Language (Paul Valéry, 1932)
La syntaxe est une faculté de l’âme. * On a trop réduit la connaissance de la langue à la simple mémoire. Faire de l’orthographe le signe de la culture, signe des temps et de sottise. Mais c’est la manoeuvre du langage qui importe, l’enchaînement des actes, l’acquisition de l’indépendance des mouvements de l’esprit; et déliés, […]
The idea and it’s expression : Mai Lai/Zapruder line of cases
Via Boston.com / The Big Picture: A Brown Pelican is seen on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) I first found this photo over at Washington’s Blog. The post where it appears makes a (short) argument about the ban of media coverage […]
