_language and the unsayable

All things concerning language and beyond it.

Start here

• the shape of what cannot be said: "The hand that reaches for a cup has never said the word cup." What is there before language, and two ways of standing at its edge: reframing and silence.

Then

• A Return to Form: an idea so unprocessed that it dissolves the moment it's written. Writing as self-erasure.
• 2025-01-29: the private language each of us develops to absorb the world, one for every person and every topic.
• About the Inadequacy of Attempting to Communicate Grief through Art: "we only exist in language," and the grammar of the disguises we wear to make sense of ourselves.
• To Speak, To Listen: reclaiming a sense of self, which can't happen without self-examination.
• Notes on Inhabiting and Declarations_Of the body: prose. "The body refuses to be metaphor."
• Declarations_Of linguistic cartographies: prose. The body keeps its own history, "in the language between breaths."