Wonderful: “drunk on syllables; rioting in an orgy of words, issuing from suffocating rivers of speech, books and pamphlets.”
The 18th century had its own culture wars over the role of language in politics. Revolutionaries and conservatives contested a linguistic regime, seeing in it the future of thought. Manuel de Landa:pic.twitter.com/Qsyh5yBljq
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