Mediatised speech can be recycled as art without passing through a reflexive self.
Evidence
Even when words could be heard, it was impossible to confidently assign them a meaning or an ontological “place”. Were they Smith’s own views, the thoughts of a character or merely stray semiotic signal? More importantly: how clearly could each of these levels be separated from one another? Hex’s textual expectorations were nothing so genteel as stream of consciousness: they seemed to be gobbets of linguistic detritus ejected direct from the mediatised unconscious, unfiltered by any sort of reflexive subjectivity. Advertising, tabloid headlines, slogans, pre-conscious chatter, overheard speech were masticated into dense schizoglossic tangles. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1167
Categorization
- XREF: The ‘schizoglossic tangles’ idea connects to William Burroughs’ cut-up method and to theories of media-circulated language as a collective unconscious. — connects to: Speech that merely returns another’s words can preserve its own subject-position — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1487; Words become one’s own only through intentional appropriation and accenting — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 1544; Art’s expression is the non-subjective trace within the subject — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2737 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Speech that merely returns another’s words can preserve its own subject-position
#corroborates(0.85) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1487 - Art’s expression is the non-subjective trace within the subject
#expands(0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2737 - Words become one’s own only through intentional appropriation and accenting
#complicates(0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1544 - Objectivity in art requires building forms from the self rather than borrowing them
#complicates(0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 280