Aug
22
“If one ceased publishing books in favour of communication by voice, image, or machine, this in no way change the reality of what is called the “book”; on the contrary, language, like speech, would thereby affirm all the more its predominance and its certitude of a possible truth. In other words, the Book always indicates an order that submits to unity, a system of notions in which are affirmed the primacy of speech over writing, of thoughts over language, and the promise of a communication that would one day be immediate and transparent.”
From The Infinite Conversation, Maurice Blanchot. Posted response to this continuing fatuity.
