12 Apr 2015

The world comes into existence as a world of language

Language has an infinite potency, but the exercise of language happens in finite conditions of history and existence. Thanks to the establishment of a limit, the world comes into existence as a world of language. Grammar, logic, and ethics are based on the institution of a limit. But infinity remains unmeasurable.

Poetry is the reopening of the indefinite, the ironic act of exceeding the established meaning of words.

Franco "Bifo" Berardi, The Uprising (semiotext(e), 2012) p. 158

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