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