ray langenbach : gesture, stutter, state


There is something terrible in a tic or a stutter. It is an outcropping, a revelation that something is hidden,
during which the nervous system is repeatedly revealed as repeatedly revealed as a site for the dissemination
of terror.





There is the possibility in the stutter that the st-state-ment will never be com-complete, that the body cannot
find a point of rest. The uto-topian future may never find its backward reflection in the propaganda manifest,
and the manifest will remain unfulfilled, cut off, curtailed from its effects... the future never revealed or found.
The tic/stutter/state reveals the apocalyptic element in speech, that is, hybrid speech which reveals only that
something is hidden, but never reveals what that something is.
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