Ep. 68: Arrival
Cinema of Meaning
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The Role of Language in Reality
In order to see your life from a certain perspective you have to be willing to accept these things like death and suffering that we don't want to look at. And I think that's what we're seeing at the end where she is choosing to engage with this life, even though she sort of knows it's going to end in thislike in this tragedy and in this separation. In relation to that, that Chang he wrote, he mentions the speech act theory. With performative languages saying equal doing. For such acts, knowing what would be said didn't change anything. A speaker could perform the action only by othering the words.
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