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Leon Brenner - The Dermic Drive

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Role of Punctuation in Psychotic Speech

In order to identify thematic relationships between words, we require punctuation. And what I argue is that associative looseness in psychotic speech is rooted in a loose mode of punctuation. Without our capacity to fully punctuate between these sounds, they overlap. So what this causes is a process of meaning making that is disorganized but not lacking thematically. It is actually dependent or even leaning on homophony and intertextuality.

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