Robertson 74: "Through speech, the citizen acts and freedom articulates its claim on subjects."
without speech, action becomes violence
see Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition, concerned with the "exchange of speech" and the original source of this formulation
> from Lisa Robertson's Nilling: Prose Essays on Noise, Pornography, The Codex, Melancholy, Lucretius, Folds, Cities and Related Aporias (2020)
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