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Deleuze and Guattari: "The Postulates of Linguistics" from 'A Thousand Plateaus'

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The Order Word

I think really it's hard not to say look at the enemy when we talk about this dual aspect of language. I mean, I could go back and say look at Kyokka Garth and think about the order word there. When the school mistress instructs her students on the rule of grammar or arithmetic, she does not so much instruct as in sign, give orders or commands. This recognition does not convey a meaning on what someone before it conveys upon him a function or an integration of them into the social whole. And he gets locked up again because actually there needs to be a contextual aspect of signifying one's relationship to a community that forms a communal power structures of recognition.

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