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Notes: 292 / 9 months ago"Mamihlapinatapai – The wordless, yet meaningful look shared by two people who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to start."- from Yagan [indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego]
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Notes: 175 / 1 year ago from proustitute"To change your language you must change your life."-
Derek Walcott, from “Codicil”
thanks to proustitute
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Notes: 198 / 1 year ago from billyjane"There’s a language, I think it’s called Mescalero, in which verbs don’t change tenses.There’s no future or past tense in that language. I was thinking…..if we could learn that language,we could live longer…"-
from Ca.Blues,1981 by Milan Oklopdžić [Mika Oklop]
[translation mine]
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Notes: 647 / 1 year ago from rerylikes"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."-
Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
from rerylikes
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Notes: 326 / 2 years ago"And more and more my language appears to me like a veil which one has to tear apart in order to get to those things (or the nothingness) lying behind it."- Samuel Beckett ,1937 from The Letters *
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Notes: 198 / 2 years ago"There’s a language, I think it’s called Mescalero, in which verbs don’t change tenses.There’s no future or past tense in that language. I was thinking…..if we could learn that language,we could live longer…"-
from Ca.Blues,1981 by Milan Oklopdžić [Mika Oklop]
[translation mine]
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Notes: 85 / 3 years ago from i12bent
i12bent:The great French wave continues with Roland Barthes: semiotician, theorist of photography, and elegant fragmentier…
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”
“”Am I in love? — Yes, since I’m waiting.” The other never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn’t wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game: whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover’s fatal identity is precisely: I am the one who waits.”
— Roland Barthes - A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments -
Notes: 1005 / 3 years ago from i12bent
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i12bent:Mel Bochner: Language is Not Transparent, 1970
“Language is Not Transparent (1970), a text written out in chalk on a painted section of wall, and Bochner’s prepositional sculpture works from the same year are ambitious attempts to give visual form to Wittgensteinian logic. The difficulty with much of these works runs parallel to that of Wittgenstein’s statement that ‘It is difficult to know something and to act as if you did not know it.’ Bochner regularly asks the viewer to act as if they didn’t understand his logistic inquiries into objective truths. Much of his work comes across as pretentious and impenetrable when it is often obvious and simple. Take, for example, Axiom of Indifference (1973), where Bochner employs tape to square-off areas that contain pennies. Denotations written on the tape correspond to the location and proximity of the coins on the floor. ‘SOME ARE IN’, ‘SOME ARE OUT’, ‘ALL ARE OUT’, ‘ALL ARE IN’ further the practice of ‘reading’ visual language over ‘seeing’ visual language.” (Source - Michelle Grabner in Frieze Mag.)
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more from dear extra/ordinary finds;]
i12bent:Mel Bochner: Language is Not Transparent, 1970
“Language is Not Transparent (1970), a text written out in chalk on a painted section of wall, and Bochner’s prepositional sculpture works from the same year are ambitious attempts to give visual form to Wittgensteinian logic. The difficulty with much of these works runs parallel to that of Wittgenstein’s statement that ‘It is difficult to know something and to act as if you did not know it.’ Bochner regularly asks the viewer to act as if they didn’t understand his logistic inquiries into objective truths. Much of his work comes across as pretentious and impenetrable when it is often obvious and simple. Take, for example, Axiom of Indifference (1973), where Bochner employs tape to square-off areas that contain pennies. Denotations written on the tape correspond to the location and proximity of the coins on the floor. ‘SOME ARE IN’, ‘SOME ARE OUT’, ‘ALL ARE OUT’, ‘ALL ARE IN’ further the practice of ‘reading’ visual language over ‘seeing’ visual language.” (Source - Michelle Grabner in Frieze Mag.)
wittgenstein knew what he was not talking about;]
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