A coded totality still evades the drama of languages

Evidence

These poets had a prernonition: of a tremendous unknown lying ahead of us, with its demand that the totality be conveyed, that is, finally, the speech of a11 peoples, the ring of every language. The computer scientist will exclaim that his machine, better than any other possible, sets us to thinking of totality. But his is a totality deciphered through a game of signs, a code totality. It evades the drama oflanguages. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 452

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to Glissant’s central claim that Relation requires irreducible multilingual contact, not a single totalizing code — echoes his championing of diversity against systems (computer, like writing) that flatten languages. — connects to: Computational universality is a code totality that evades languages’ lived drama

Broader Connections

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