Monday, March 3, 2014

[...] in order to get the truth to speak, it is not enough to suspend the subject’s active intervention and let language itself speak — as Elfriede Jelinek put it with extraordinary clarity: “Language should be tortured to tell the truth.” 

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The Poetic Torture-House of Language

How poetry relates to ethnic cleansing

BY SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
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