{"id":6617,"date":"2006-09-07T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/no-last-word\/"},"modified":"2006-09-07T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T23:00:07","slug":"no-last-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/no-last-word\/","title":{"rendered":"No Last Word"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> min<\/span><\/span>

Remembering to read a little bit of Barthes from time to time. I like
\nthis one (from RB<\/i>):<\/p>\n

When I used to play prisoner’s base…<\/p>\n

When I used to play prisoner’s base in the Luxembourg, what I liked best
\n was not provoking the other team and boldly exposing myself to their right to
\n take me prisoner; what I liked best was to free the prisoners–the effect of
\n which was to put both teams back into circulation: the game started over again
\n at zero.<\/p>\n

In the great game of the powers of speech, we also play prisoner’s base:
\n one language has only temporary rights over another; all it takes is for a
\n third language to appear from the ranks for the assailant to be forced into
\n retreat: in the conflict of rhetorics, the victory never goes to any but the
\n third language<\/i>. The task of this language is to release the prisoners:
\n to scatter the signifieds, the catechisms. As in prisoner’s base, language
\n upon language<\/i>, to infinity, such is the law which governs the logosphere.
\n Whence other images: that of choosing up hand over hand (the third hand
\n returns, it is no longer the first one), that of scissors, paper, stone, that
\n of the onion in its layers of skin without a core. That difference
\n should not be paid for by any subjection: no last word. (50)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After reading through Invention as a Social Act<\/a><\/i>, I turned to this bit
\nfrom RB<\/i> to untwist what I was reading about collaboration as a
\ndialectical process from Lefevre. No need to blur the distinction between
\nsynthesis (anti\/thesis wound together like a bread-tie) and "scatter[ing] the
\nsignifieds."<\/p>\n

Although this is as much because I was posting Barthes passages last year,
\n9\/7<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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