{"id":17743,"date":"2014-03-19T17:15:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/language-is-presented-to-us-as-basically\/"},"modified":"2014-03-19T17:15:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T17:15:08","slug":"language-is-presented-to-us-as-basically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/language-is-presented-to-us-as-basically\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Language is presented to us as basically informative, and information as basically an exchange. Information is measured in abstract units. But it\u2019s doubtful whether the schoolmistress, explaining how something works or teaching spelling, is transmitting information. She\u2019s instructing, she\u2019s really delivering precepts. And children are supplied with syntax like workers being given tools, in order to produce utterances conforming to accepted meanings. We should take him quite literally when Godard says children are political prisoners. Language is a system of instructions rather than a means of conveying information. TV tells us: \u201cNow we\u2019ll have a bit of entertainment, then the news\u2026\u201d We ought to in fact to invert the scheme of information theory. The theory assumes a theoretical maximum of information, with pure noise, interference, at the other extreme; and in between there\u2019s redundancy, which reduces the information but allows it to overcome noise. But we should actually start with redundancy as the transmission and relaying of orders or instructions; next, there\u2019s information\u2014always the minimum needed for the satisfactory reception of orders; then what? Well, then there\u2019s something like silence, or like stammering, or screaming, something slipping through underneath the redundancies and information, letting language slip through, and making itself heard, in spite of everything. To talk, even about yourself, is always to take the place of someone else in whose place you\u2019re claiming to speak and who\u2019s been denied the right to speak. [\u2026] How can we manage to speak without giving orders, without claiming to represent something or someone, how can we get people without the right to speak, to speak; and how can we restore to sounds their part in the struggle against power?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p class=\"p1\">Gilles Deleuze, \u201cThree Questions on Six Times Two\u201d in <em>Negotiations 1972-1990<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/givemeabody.tumblr.com\/\">givemeabody<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language is presented to us as basically informative, and information as basically an exchange. Information is measured in abstract units. But it\u2019s doubtful whether the schoolmistress, explaining how something works or teaching spelling, is transmitting information. She\u2019s instructing, she\u2019s really delivering precepts. And children are supplied with syntax like workers being given tools, in order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4Cb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}