W O R (L) D: My Word Animation Project

W O R (L) D

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Interesting that these two words,

word and world,

would be so similar, right?

To what extent is

our world is situated

by the words with which

we have to describe it?

To shape it?

To claim it or be abandoned by it?

For example,

In a world in which every two minutes

someone, somewhere, is sexually assaulted,

how is the wor(l)d limited for these people (who are almost all of us, not some external, distant, minority population BY ANY MEANS)?

The words which exist to describe their experience

sound like this,

(read them aloud and make sure to note

the difficulty you will certainly have

getting them out

of your throat)

RAPE. MOLESTATION. INCEST. ABUSE.

You have been put into a position

you did not choose

and there are is no way to speak of it

without feeling reduced

To what extent, then, might the words we have to express ourselves,

work at an equal rate as the forces which actively oppress ourselves?

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{Debord: "We live within language as within polluted air.

In spite of what humorists think, words do not play.

Nor do they make love, as Breton thought, except in dreams.

Words work -- on behalf of the dominant organization of life."}