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” […] what makes writing the opposite of speech is that the former always appears symbolical, introverted, ostensibly, turned towards an occult side of language , whereas the second is nothing but a flow of empty signs, the movement of which alone is significant. […] Writing, on the contrary, is always rooted in something beyond language, it develops like a seed, not like a line, it manifests an essence and holds the threat of a secret, it is anticommunication, it is intimidating.  All writing will therefore contain the ambiguity of an object which is both language and coercion:  there exists  fundamentally in writing a ‘circumstance’ foreign to language, there is, as it were, the weight of a gaze conveying an intention which is no longer linguistic.”

Ronald Barthes, “Writing degree zero”

reblogged it from my dearest Pitsirikos

04. EXPERIMENTACIÓN DE LA MANO QUE ESCRIBE.13
“unreadable” love letter, anthokosmos 2012


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