Defanging the Violence of Language and the End of the World
Last month, Alexander Buk-Swienty made a welcome return to the pages of the Ark Review with the short but thought provoking essay The Violence of Language and Literature. In the essay, he argued—from a Lacanian/Žižekian perspective—that more attention needs to be paid to the inherent violence of linguistic systems as they place limits upon the… Keep Reading