Abstract
This article provides a context for the section “Creating Language and Theorizing Literature”. The editors of the section discuss both contemporary and historicalarticulations of the materiality of language from a new materialist perspective. The new materialist project comprises looking for the immanence of language via three realms: its relation, its theorization, and its creation. Therefore, moving away from representationalist practices demands a definition of language as animate, sensory material requiring creative labour for its realisation. The article provides an example of this materialization of language, via the concept of bodywording.
Highlights
This article provides a context for the section “Creating Language and Theorizing Literature”
This syntactical strangeness produces an effect not dissimilar to the strangeness that comes from algorithmic languagecreations, both deliberate – as in the case of AI (Artificial Intelligence)-composed nonsense poetry, and mistaken – as in when games are played with the predictive text function of iPhones
In light of the above, this article deals with what we develop as the feminist new materialist project on the embodiment or enfleshment of language, or the linguistics of matter
Summary
The effect of listing each of the above matter-realisations of linguistic temporal markers paradigmatically is that linear syntactical sense is obscured, whilst the repetition foregrounds the materiality of the words themselves This syntactical strangeness produces an effect not dissimilar to the strangeness that comes from algorithmic languagecreations, both deliberate – as in the case of AI (Artificial Intelligence)-composed nonsense poetry, and mistaken – as in when games are played with the predictive text function of iPhones (as discussed below). To analyse writing methodologies which situate language beyond human practices in order to avoid dualist distinctions that enhance privilege and power These objectives are enfleshed through the process of bodywording – the enfleshing of words and the building of language-bodies – as demonstrated in our concluding linguistic experiment which writes with and through multiple others
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