Entries tagged with hermeneutics

May 30, 2026

Entry 73: Language Notes IV

A recent post by Vladimir Feshchenko, Russian linguist and scholar of language-centered writing, raised a question of the historical reception of Language writing—as a history of its own making. Language writing’s historicism is in this sense double—not only a question of its publications, influences, reception, contexts, but the way its formal and theoretical or explorations lead to the future unfolding of new meanings. One thus can trace the historical (real-time) reception of Language writing in relation to these aspects of its “constructivist” poetics, in the sense I develop in The Constructivist Moment. That was 2003, “midway through Language writing’s journey,” and the results keep coming in. They continue in a line that extends to Lyn Hejinian’s later theory of allegory, in Allegorical Moments (2023), pluralizing “moments” in dialogue with that “moment.” … More