On the Importance of Being Understood
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On Garbage Speech
Beyond its aspect of insult as trash talk, which seems, in part, to promulgate the values of one community over the values of another, garbage speech is the excess of the communal. It is performance.
What is the meaning of such performance? Its meaning is in the emphasis of power so embodied. After all, the power to escape interpretation is the power to escape community.
But the power to escape community is also the power to escape an immediate need to be understood as anything other than power(ful) itself.
Not that there is not an excess of non-sense in such performance, but the outcome of acommunal speech is not so much non-sense as much as it is the excess of speech itself. This aspect of excess is waste. This excess is the very act of refuse.
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