Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "Introduction to Jean Hyppolite's Commentary on Freud's 'Verneinung'"
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Death and the Negation of Discourse
Death brings the question of what negates discourse, and whether or not it is death that introduces negation into discourse. We are in a sense as linguistic beings, inventor of the negative, the no. For our purposes, I want you to recall the primary function of language when it's introduced into the life of a child. It's a big, fat no. The no has a certain effect. And we're torn between these two: an irreducible divide between biomaterialistic parts of art myself and the socio-linguistic parts of myself. That third element, that negated space, that difference that exists,. Irreducible minimum difference, and distance required to
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