grgr (16): alphabetization of silence

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 "w h y   b a b y l o n?

  striking about god's punishment action is in the first place that it is a 
  language-political measure. communication problems of languages are produced. 
  also incommunicabilities? & why is this an adequate reaction to sin, & to 
  which aspect of sin? building construction as a drive into transcendence? or: 
  wanting to make oneself a name which was not designated in creation?

  one also asks oneself whether the fact that now sound does emerge is 
  favourable to god's wish to become heard.

  a-and eventually: the efforts toward an universal language in the age of 
  leibniz must, in this context, be considered as a direct language-political 
  correction of god's measure. so: remarkable guts. & at the same time, 
  incommunicabilities are discovered, that cannot be cleared away by the 
  polishment, universalization & calculatization of linguistic means of 
  communication. apparently god puts through himself by an invisible hand."  


  (m.o.p.a.t. from niklas luhmanns notizen zu 'reden und schweigen'. in: soziale 
  systeme. zeitschrift für soziologische theorie. jahrgang 5 (1999), heft 2,   
  pages 213-237, opladen: leske & budrich)
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