The Sequencer - All language has become writing
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All language has become
organized under the label "writing". All language has become writing.
The concept of writing
is also the phonetic representation, or signifier of writing, of itself.
As writing is utilized
it in the production of language, writings history us hidden.
Because writings history
is hidden it functions as a mere referent, a signifier for the signified
language. But language is always a signifier for writing as well.
All signifieds or
concepts simply refer to other concepts. And signifieds become referents. All
signifieds become signifiers of signifiers. Thus the sign logic, signifier
(sound/image) referring to a signified (a concept) is destroyed because
concepts simply refer to other concepts.
The concept of language
destroys all of its limits. Language is both signifier and signified of not
only writing, which it supervenes on, but for all discourse.
Writing was never simply
a supplement. Its was never simply there to "fill in where speech couldn't
handle itself". Everything the makes writing 'writing' (articulation for
example) was already present in speech.
The sound-image-phone
was privileged over all else because it was the first recognized. One hears
oneself speaking, thinking, before all else. The voice inside is unregulated,
non-empirical, lively. For this invoice arises other distinctions. Tge Différance
between inside and outside, transcendental and empirical, worldly and
non-worldly, etc,.
With these distinctions
writing emerged as secondary to speech, as outside. Writing was relegated to
the translator of the full present speech. Writing was a technic in the service
of language. Writing was shield from interpretation.
The meaning and origin
of writing may emerge from the meaning of and origin of technics
Things like reflection,
action, consciousness that used to be under the label 'language' now exist
under the label 'writing'. All inscription in general is considered
"writing". The literal as well as what is not literal and even that
which is alien to the voice. There is cinematographic choreographic, pictorial,
musical writing.
Activity in cells, is
described by biologists as writing. If cybernetics and AI is to succeed it must
do away with souls by holding on to writing, trace, the written mark, gramme.
The death of speech is
seen more clearly in the articulation, the clarity of mathematical and
scientific writing. A clarity that phonetic writing doesn't have. There is a
trace, a propositional attitude of truth persisting throughout all statements
but as writing becames clearer so does this attitude. We go to the mathematical
and the scientific for this truth.
Writing functions as a
means of conserving the spoken language without the presence of the speaker.
Phonetic writing as the
medium of metaphysical, scientific writing, etc. It is limited in space and
time and it limits itself while in the process of putting its laws on the
cultural areas that had escaped it.
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