{"id":4373,"date":"2016-12-12T22:19:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T22:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2016-12-12T22:25:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T22:25:40","slug":"kathy-groan-proposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/4373\/kathy-groan-proposition\/","title":{"rendered":"KATHY GROAN: Proposition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Proposition: \u2018I\u2019 will never be \u2018I\u2019\u2019s own person as far as speech events are concerned, or, language is an elsewhere<\/em><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0<\/strong>Speech events precede \u2018I\u2019\u2019s arrival whether \u2018I\u2019 likes it or not<\/p>\n

1.1<\/strong> It follows \u2018I\u2019 cannot speak of an \u2018I\u2019 which exists prior to its orientation across and as a speech event<\/p>\n

1.2<\/strong> In the first place \u2018I\u2019 must accept the impersonality of the speech events across which \u2018I\u2019 has blindly staggered; in the second place \u2018I\u2019 must accept \u2018I\u2019\u2019s dependence on these speech events<\/p>\n

1.3\u00a0<\/strong>Language is not a here but an elsewhere<\/p>\n

1.4<\/strong> \u2018I\u2019 yearns for independence from the speech events which carry \u2018I\u2019 out<\/p>\n

1.5<\/strong> \u2018I\u2019 is a condition of striving and an ugly occupation<\/p>\n

1.6<\/strong> Perhaps \u2018I\u2019 does not express very much except the impersonality of speech events<\/p>\n

1.7 <\/strong>Perhaps speech events do not express very much except the non-meeting of language and \u2018I\u2019<\/p>\n

1.8<\/strong> Perhaps speech events are a grappling between \u2018speakingness\u2019 and \u2018spokenness\u2019<\/p>\n

1.9 <\/strong>Perhaps \u2018agency\u2019 is unlocatable being neither \u2018in\u2019 speech events nor \u2018I\u2019<\/p>\n

1.10<\/strong> Perhaps \u2018agency\u2019 traverses the grappling<\/p>\n

1.11\u00a0<\/strong>If \u201cdesire emerges first from the outside and in overwhelming form, and [\u2026] retains this exterior and foreign quality once it becomes the subject\u2019s own desire\u201d perhaps speech events are a species of desire[1]<\/p>\n

1.12 <\/strong>If catachresis \u201cnames the origin of language \u2013 or indeed [\u2026] any symbolic system \u2013 as \u201crupture\u201d or \u201cdoubling\u201d rather than as singular presence\u201d perhaps \u2018I\u2019 is also catachrestic[2]<\/p>\n

1.13\u00a0<\/strong>Perhaps words which sacrifice the desire to erase the world are both deliberate and accidental<\/p>\n

1.14 <\/strong>Perhaps the word and the world are the same but are attended by different events<\/p>\n

1.15\u00a0<\/strong>Perhaps language is the residue of an unspeakable event<\/p>\n

1.16<\/strong> Perhaps writing is the only erotic activity<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

Kathy Groan<\/p>\n

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[1] Butler, J., Giving an Account of Oneself<\/em> (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005) p. 72<\/p>\n

[2] Greene, R., The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics<\/em> (Fourth Edition) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012) p. 210<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Kathy Groan was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, and has lived in Rugby, Paris, Huddersfield, Manchester and mid-Wales. She has worked variously as a bartender, busker, cleaner, life model, usherette and waitress, and is currently working on a book of creative and critical essays on language, violence and desire.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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