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After the introductions and a choral presentation, the late Honorable U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, begins speaking in an interview, around 9 minutes and 20 seconds into this recording. She begins with her response to a question regarding why she loves opera.
One can say anything to language. This is why it is a listener, closer to us than any silence or any god. Yet its very openness can signify indifference. (The indifference of language is continually solicited and employed in the bulletins, legal records, communiques, files.) Poetry addresses language in such a way as to close this indifference and to incite a caring. How does poetry incite this caring? What is the labor poetry? – John Berger
Everywhere there is an absence of toilet paper. Lacan taught us that the symptom is structured like a language, that it speaks, that it expresses a message or a series of signifiers. It is odd that toilet paper, of all things, should have been that which people hoarded. It is as if at some level they registered the earth that rumbles beneath the world, that renders the world possible, and chose a thing that marks the intersection of nature and culture to say what they did not have words to say. We spoke through a symptom. – Levi R Bryant
Richard Wright (left) and fellow delegates at the First Congress of Black Writers and Artists, Paris, 1956.
For today’s episode producer Bella Bravo spoke with poet Juliana Spahr about her book, Du Bois’s Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment. This close study of how state interests have shaped contemporary U.S. literature was published by Harvard University Press in 2018.
In Du Bois’s Telegram, Spahr investigates the relationship between politics and art. Her research focuses on the institutional forces at work during three moments in U.S. literature that sought to defy political orthodoxies through challenging linguistic conventions: first, the avant-garde modernism of the early twentieth century; second, the resistance-movement writing of the 1960s and 1970s; and, finally, in the twenty-first century, the abundance of English-language works integrating languages other than English.
Source: Interchange – The Unknown Knowns of Cultural Diplomacy – WFHB
“For the first time I think that the Holy Grail is at least in view in some core areas, maybe even within reach.” Image: Wikimedia Commons
The father of modern linguistics is still opening up new kinds of questions and topics for inquiry.
Source: On Language and Humanity: In Conversation With Noam Chomsky | The MIT Press Reader
At the TEDWomen 2017 conference, cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky gave a talk on how different languages affect how their speakers think about the world. It ended up being the most viewed online TED Talk in 2018.
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