Got a feeling it’s a mixed-up sign
> The most common innovation is to give an unwonted meaning to an expression already in
> use. That method is simple, quick, and easy. No learning is needed to make use of it, and
> ignorance itself can make it easier. But it involved great dangers for the language. In thus
> giving double meanings to one word, democratic peoples often make both the old and the
> new signification ambiguous.
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— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ‘How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language’
> The end of linear writing is indeed the end of the book, even if, even today, it is within the
> form of a book that new writings — literary or theoretical — allow themselves to be, for
> better or worse, encased… Beginning to write without the line, one begins also to reread
> past writing according to a different organization of space. If today the problem of reading
> occupies the forefront of science, it is because of this suspense between two ages of
> writing.
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— Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology
> Constant
> revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions,
> everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones.
> All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and
> opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.
> All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to
> face with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with his kind.
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— Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
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