Extreme violence produces reductive, annihilating language rather than expressive speech
Evidence
Is there no valid language for Chaos? Or do es Chaos only produce a sort of language that reduces and annihilates? Does its echo recede into a sabir of sabirs at the level of a roar? — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 635
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s glissant/decolonial thread: Chaos as non-language echoes his broader creolization concerns and the limits of fixed identity discourse under extremity. — connects to: Distant violence can become more graphic rather than more abstract
Broader Connections
- Distant violence can become more graphic rather than more abstract
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