REVIEW: Pathemata: Or, The Story of My Mouth by Maggie Nelson
Understanding why it physically hurts when you tell me to shut up.
In the introduction of On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, Maggie Nelson invokes Wittgenstein’s edict on language: “The meaning of a word is its use.” The statement encapsulates the framew…
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