Discourse strives for totality. It must strive for totality, yet it is never more than incomplete. Something is always left unsaid. And when it is claimed that everything can be said, or has been said, then language has reached a crisis point. By giving priority to language we give priority to consciousness, and remain within the framework of the old (idealist) philosophy. We fetishize it, transforming it into an alienated and alienating power, into a thing . We must go beyond language, and even beyond the active word, to find, to discover – to create – what is yet to be said.
Henri Lefebvre
Introduction to Modernity:Twelve Preludes (1962)
Odilon Redon
The Centaur (c. 1885-1890)
