Our speech works against the pressure of time. The present limits our speech. As we pass into the next moment, our words pass into the past. There is a negation attached to our speaking. It can never be fully present. It always passes away as soon as we speak. There is negation of speaking at the very heart of...
Speaking, Writing and Living
Is language reducible to human speech? If it is so then it becomes limited. Jacques Derrida calls this reduction phonocentrism. This means there are non-phonetic/phonetic languages. Humans began to communicate in a non-phonic way through gestures and sounds (sonic images). Often images, pictographs, hieroglyphs were used to communicate. This suggests that speech that makes use of words as well...
