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Central to this book are scripts by Nicoline van Harskamp, for the video work PDGN and a series of staged works titled My Name Is Language<\/em>. Speech is the medium and the main topic of both of these works, that treat names as spoken language rather than spelled identity markers. A scholar of literary arts and performance culture, Avishek Ganguly reflects in his essay \u201cGlobal Englishes, Rough Futures\u201d on questions of translation, incomprehension, and untranslatability in van Harskamp\u2019s work. The book also includes a list of text-change algorithms that van Harskamp calls \u201cdistorters\u201d and an excerpt from Woman on the Edge of Time<\/em> (1976) by Marge Piercy.<\/p>\n

Fixed in corporate and state systems more firmly than numeric tax IDs or IP addresses, names are generally no longer treated as language, but as lexically opaque formulas. In their indifference to language diversity, authorities are known to rephrase, reorder, and re-alphabetize names when they don\u2019t fit their administrative standard. They are also known to deny rights to people who have no \u201cname label.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the fictive worlds represented in this book, society is not centralized, not oversized, and self-naming is brought forward as a form of self-empowerment and resistance.<\/p>\n

Scriptings\u2019 reader format \u201cPolitical Scenarios\u201d is published in collaboration with Archive Books and the e-book publisher EECLECTIC. The aim is to publish carefully selected scripts and texts by artists that refer neither to academic nor to purely literary forms of writing, but embed \u201ctext\u201d as an integral part of a contemporary political art practice.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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