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Lewis Hyde

“Once the web has lost its charm, its terms lose theirs; suddenly they seem contingent and open to revision. For those epi-predators who work with the signifiers themselves rather than the things they supposedly signify, language is not a medium that helps us see the true, the real, the natural. Language is a tool assembled by creatures with “no way” trying to make a world that will satisfy their needs; it is a tool those same creatures can disassemble if it fails them.”

Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art by Lewis Hyde
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