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Language Speaks for Itself
What is language? Where does it come from and what does it want (from us)?

Richard Mather


The Subject Is a Being without a Nature
The Subject Is a Being without a Nature Once, nature: being without a subject. Now, the subject: a being without a nature. Once, fullness & animal dumbness. Now, language, tongue, la, signifying illness, emptiness. La, a foreign verb bound to other verbs, other selves, all in a chain, unending, infinite, rhetorical. Larynx a tool of persuasion. LaLangue: master; I, its slave. Yet words are not things I wish to talk about. I speak, but it is not I. The eye looks

Richard Mather


To Spinoza
To Spinoza nomads we traverse a flat shimmering world breeding images. signs & erratic/ erotic encounters; surfaces effacing depth...we killed being you and I – for what? for the sake of ecstatic form. modes counterfeit substance, producing a synthetic real. If being exists it does so as an effect of the imaginary, of imaging. so, not-being, not-at-all-being then, not even becoming.

Richard Mather
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