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Archive for ‘the Other’
The Institute for the Encouragement of Outrageous Ideas is pleased to announce the appointment of Diana Slattery to the McKenna Chair of Xenolinguistics. Dr. Slattery brings her years of experience in multidimensional interspecies communication to the position. She is uniquely suited to the furthering of the Institute’s mission, having amassed an impressive resume of outrageous acts and through her contributions as a member of the Task Force to Define the Nature of the Outrageous.
Xenolinguistics
In my usage, Xenolinguistics is the study of language and linguistic phenomena in the psychedelic sphere. Xenolinguistics gives a word to this effort to create a first assemblage of local knowledges, gathered from first person reports, as from the logbooks of early navigators, about these phenomena. The local knowledges I am interested in are those of the xenolinguists, where the focus, fascination, and subsequent interpretations circle around language—different capacities of language from what we call “natural” language. Xenolinguistics reveals forms …