words
miriam beautiful octavio verse peace that
it takes me towards that original moment
of the world the first day of the world that
it was said the first day of the world
I imagine a dark and named land
unnameable even in which some
big eyes gave names to things
and give name to be made
it’s a tree it’s a way it’s a bird
the word looked and inaugurated things
I wonder many times where it comes from
this obsession that always had for the
by the words by the origin by the
sonority for the meanings and I have
two versions not the first one that was the
that the complaint always good was
when I started writing this
the literature that obviously the the
matter with which one works is the
word but the truth is that there is another and
I owe it to my mom, it seems a little
traumatic
my mother paradoxically a woman
very wise of very few words from
thousand seven years until 12 and I want
imagine that it was less I was getting past
my vacation doing flat
words so imagine yourself a
boy of 8 9 years with a huge picture
opposite typing 50 times
skepticism vehemence vilification
not clear that started first with a
as something painful but then I understood and
I said good that somehow is going to
assign my destiny and towards there towards
where do I go, also not another anecdote
I remember you on this very thing the
wise men when they brought gifts
I only got excited once
I ran I ran not to the manger and I
I imagined bicycle or a breakfast
nintendo or something and I got myself and what
memory
literally a set of squads about
didactic games and a booklet of
words but mom but for the love of
god so that means this gift and
with his prudence and wisdom he told me
why the wise men bring
wisdom said borges said borges
an extraordinary poet and in a village
wonderful said the name is
archetype of the thing in the letters of
rose is the rose and all the nile in the
Nilo word
the words have memory the words
drag the time from the beginning
every time you pronounce the word
death for example it feels as if
were all the deaths in the world
when the word life is said there is something
that wakes up when the word is said
day 17 like that to amman efe
then all this memory that comes with
the words all this time they load
I get the language does not do anything else
that create or destroy realities
I come from a country where they changed
the words what george predicted
orwell in 1984
that dystopian novel of a neolanguage
of the power in which he said he did not
think or double think or double more
not good at this exchange of words
it fell short compared to what
the collective life happened in venezuela
of a country as well as life
individual each person is held
by a system of words
the word democracy country nation
state
suddenly they were replaced by the
word revolution homeland people and of
it soon turned out that no word was
what was used they refused one and
a thousand times until you erase the memory of
the words and something very curious happened
and very painful
we all lost a country in the word
motherland the word was used so many times
country and it became like this
red circle where suddenly there
only a few members of one
political caste and those that were
displaced and are displaced from those
words began to be called
stateless
they were expelled with a word with
a word a country disappeared and
a whole new margin of
understanding or a whole new margin of
understanding and history and memory
and why does this happen because power
what it does is invade the substances of
the words the words create worlds
the word destroys worlds and power and
call yourself power any power
economic power politician
anyone what makes first part
of the words and break the words
inside
Of course other methods of
domination the admiration for strength
of course and let’s say damage to
through those of the factual forces
of any government does but the fund
the bottom of everything is the word but
how is there a foundation
something linguistic
perhaps like Jesus an oppression
policy or of any kind can
be or can be based on a
linguistic operation sixth postulate
of the Nazi propaganda joseph goebbels
said an idea is true or false
It has to be communicated without hesitation and without
fissures and then coin this great phrase
macabre that says a repeated lie
a thousand times it becomes true
imagine that the power wants to make the
linguistic operation to replace the
word democracy
the power comes to mind that democracy is
a pool of balls or a pool of
balls at the beginning they tell you that it is
crazy
where it comes to the pool that
democracy can be a pool of
balls and then the power that is a
word machine starts to
bombard words speeches concepts
and start and use all the means that
you have at your disposal
call yourself media
Call it educational programs and
call yourself their same
institutions to repeat and repeat and
repeat the word and repeat the
speech
then the power begins and says that the
democracy is a pool of balls and
then he invents a scene where he leads
bad men are taking out the
children to force to the pool of
balls and says there are men who are
trying to get the children out of a
game of balls are violating their
rights to play that can not happen in
democracy and follows
we’re not going to let them take away the
democratic power that our children
play in a pool of balls and
continues and continues and continues and of
suddenly democracy becomes
a pool of balls and this is so
serious that can be anything is a
rhetorical example but it can be
anything
tomorrow can be a last table
tomorrow a black bird or between 15
days and a man wearing pink
then we have to be very careful
because maybe we have been swimming in
Pool of balls without knowing it
because we have probably repeated and
we are repeating a story that we
they told us we are repeating a series of
concepts and we are basing our
vision of reality in a series of
words and concepts that some power will
it happened to him to say sometime
then you have to be very clear that the
domination begins in the language if
we are not fully aware of the
words any concept can fit
within that word said a great
Venezuelan poet rafael chains that a
people who are not aware of the
language ends repeating the slogans
of the tricksters then the tyranny
hides in empty words
Empty empty memory words
time and empty of meaning of
too abstract words like
democracy as a people as freedom
as progress that are words that the
same power appropriates and generates end
being hiding places of tyranny he spoke
with a Dominican poet very recently
who has 20 years living in states
united and he told me a beautiful phrase
Spanish is now our barricade
Spanish and he and the Hispanic community
although it is very large in the United States and
in other parts of the world is
constantly fenced and now more in
which racism and racial populism
It has been established as a new order
you can never predict on one side then
they do not count on their part and they speak very well
then he tells me the Spanish is
turns into a barricade
what do you mean by this that you resist
speaking the tongue resists the attack
and the invisibilization of the power of
somehow he proposes because by attacking the
language of a people by erasing the
culture by prohibiting or some way
restrict the use of the language that
the person dominates and a world is liquidated
then in this beautiful community of
572 million speakers that is the
Spanish
We have a duty to take care of you
turn it into a barricade in a
bridge also said in a thousand will be a
human thinker franco brother is not
a country inhabits a language
We are all inhabitants of this beautiful
country that is the Spanish community
and with this language and with this language
that we have are called to
protect us from the big word with him
speaks intimately the word that comes from the
individuality the honest word and that
Contrast the great words
against the word revolution the word
building
against the word people the word
people
against the word nation the word
family remake the world from within
to say back to that original moment
in which the first words were
said and pull out tyranny
so what is to resist with words
build new intimate narratives and
collective is to say new words that
sustain our lives as people and
that sustain our lives as a country
Be careful to repeat the same
words and in the same story as the
power has counted to build a narrative
own because we are full of
episodes episodes things that happen day
after another day after another with a
extraordinary speed but we do not have
narrative is saying something that gives
meaning and the word are felt
words give meaning and power to
the person and the world
then restore the sense of
things is also about knowing how to name them
with exact words and for this we have
the duty of reading education
of the conversation there is not a space of
more beautiful resistance than
Conversation talk to each other
establish links and from there from
there to reread the world because obviously
we are not going to change the world just
talking but talking
we reinterpret the world and
reinterpreting it in some way what
we are changing what I want that
you take away this afternoon is the
beautiful world of words the
extraordinary power that we have as
people when we talk and what is it
distinguishes us and the need to refound
the world from there to change the
history of our country from there and
of course make us new people
with new words and from there change
the world and not drown in pool of
balls
Thank you
[Applause]
miriam beautiful octavio verse peace that
it takes me towards that original moment
of the world the first day of the world that
it was said the first day of the world
I imagine a dark and named land
unnameable even in which some
big eyes gave names to things
and give name to be made
it’s a tree it’s a way it’s a bird
the word looked and inaugurated things
I wonder many times where it comes from
this obsession that always had for the
by the words by the origin by the
sonority for the meanings and I have
two versions not the first one that was the
that the complaint always good was
when I started writing this
the literature that obviously the the
matter with which one works is the
word but the truth is that there is another and
I owe it to my mom, it seems a little
traumatic
my mother paradoxically a woman
very wise of very few words from
thousand seven years until 12 and I want
imagine that it was less I was getting past
my vacation doing flat
words so imagine yourself a
boy of 8 9 years with a huge picture
opposite typing 50 times
skepticism vehemence vilification
not clear that started first with a
as something painful but then I understood and
I said good that somehow is going to
assign my destiny and towards there towards
where do I go, also not another anecdote
I remember you on this very thing the
wise men when they brought gifts
I only got excited once
I ran I ran not to the manger and I
I imagined bicycle or a breakfast
nintendo or something and I got myself and what
memory
literally a set of squads about
didactic games and a booklet of
words but mom but for the love of
god so that means this gift and
with his prudence and wisdom he told me
why the wise men bring
wisdom said borges said borges
an extraordinary poet and in a village
wonderful said the name is
archetype of the thing in the letters of
rose is the rose and all the nile in the
Nilo word
the words have memory the words
drag the time from the beginning
every time you pronounce the word
death for example it feels as if
were all the deaths in the world
when the word life is said there is something
that wakes up when the word is said
day 17 like that to amman efe
then all this memory that comes with
the words all this time they load
I get the language does not do anything else
that create or destroy realities
I come from a country where they changed
the words what george predicted
orwell in 1984
that dystopian novel of a neolanguage
of the power in which he said he did not
think or double think or double more
not good at this exchange of words
it fell short compared to what
the collective life happened in venezuela
of a country as well as life
individual each person is held
by a system of words
the word democracy country nation
state
suddenly they were replaced by the
word revolution homeland people and of
it soon turned out that no word was
what was used they refused one and
a thousand times until you erase the memory of
the words and something very curious happened
and very painful
we all lost a country in the word
motherland the word was used so many times
country and it became like this
red circle where suddenly there
only a few members of one
political caste and those that were
displaced and are displaced from those
words began to be called
stateless
they were expelled with a word with
a word a country disappeared and
a whole new margin of
understanding or a whole new margin of
understanding and history and memory
and why does this happen because power
what it does is invade the substances of
the words the words create worlds
the word destroys worlds and power and
call yourself power any power
economic power politician
anyone what makes first part
of the words and break the words
inside
Of course other methods of
domination the admiration for strength
of course and let’s say damage to
through those of the factual forces
of any government does but the fund
the bottom of everything is the word but
how is there a foundation
something linguistic
perhaps like Jesus an oppression
policy or of any kind can
be or can be based on a
linguistic operation sixth postulate
of the Nazi propaganda joseph goebbels
said an idea is true or false
It has to be communicated without hesitation and without
fissures and then coin this great phrase
macabre that says a repeated lie
a thousand times it becomes true
imagine that the power wants to make the
linguistic operation to replace the
word democracy
the power comes to mind that democracy is
a pool of balls or a pool of
balls at the beginning they tell you that it is
crazy
where it comes to the pool that
democracy can be a pool of
balls and then the power that is a
word machine starts to
bombard words speeches concepts
and start and use all the means that
you have at your disposal
call yourself media
Call it educational programs and
call yourself their same
institutions to repeat and repeat and
repeat the word and repeat the
speech
then the power begins and says that the
democracy is a pool of balls and
then he invents a scene where he leads
bad men are taking out the
children to force to the pool of
balls and says there are men who are
trying to get the children out of a
game of balls are violating their
rights to play that can not happen in
democracy and follows
we’re not going to let them take away the
democratic power that our children
play in a pool of balls and
continues and continues and continues and of
suddenly democracy becomes
a pool of balls and this is so
serious that can be anything is a
rhetorical example but it can be
anything
tomorrow can be a last table
tomorrow a black bird or between 15
days and a man wearing pink
then we have to be very careful
because maybe we have been swimming in
Pool of balls without knowing it
because we have probably repeated and
we are repeating a story that we
they told us we are repeating a series of
concepts and we are basing our
vision of reality in a series of
words and concepts that some power will
it happened to him to say sometime
then you have to be very clear that the
domination begins in the language if
we are not fully aware of the
words any concept can fit
within that word said a great
Venezuelan poet rafael chains that a
people who are not aware of the
language ends repeating the slogans
of the tricksters then the tyranny
hides in empty words
Empty empty memory words
time and empty of meaning of
too abstract words like
democracy as a people as freedom
as progress that are words that the
same power appropriates and generates end
being hiding places of tyranny he spoke
with a Dominican poet very recently
who has 20 years living in states
united and he told me a beautiful phrase
Spanish is now our barricade
Spanish and he and the Hispanic community
although it is very large in the United States and
in other parts of the world is
constantly fenced and now more in
which racism and racial populism
It has been established as a new order
you can never predict on one side then
they do not count on their part and they speak very well
then he tells me the Spanish is
turns into a barricade
what do you mean by this that you resist
speaking the tongue resists the attack
and the invisibilization of the power of
somehow he proposes because by attacking the
language of a people by erasing the
culture by prohibiting or some way
restrict the use of the language that
the person dominates and a world is liquidated
then in this beautiful community of
572 million speakers that is the
Spanish
We have a duty to take care of you
turn it into a barricade in a
bridge also said in a thousand will be a
human thinker franco brother is not
a country inhabits a language
We are all inhabitants of this beautiful
country that is the Spanish community
and with this language and with this language
that we have are called to
protect us from the big word with him
speaks intimately the word that comes from the
individuality the honest word and that
Contrast the great words
against the word revolution the word
building
against the word people the word
people
against the word nation the word
family remake the world from within
to say back to that original moment
in which the first words were
said and pull out tyranny
so what is to resist with words
build new intimate narratives and
collective is to say new words that
sustain our lives as people and
that sustain our lives as a country
Be careful to repeat the same
words and in the same story as the
power has counted to build a narrative
own because we are full of
episodes episodes things that happen day
after another day after another with a
extraordinary speed but we do not have
narrative is saying something that gives
meaning and the word are felt
words give meaning and power to
the person and the world
then restore the sense of
things is also about knowing how to name them
with exact words and for this we have
the duty of reading education
of the conversation there is not a space of
more beautiful resistance than
Conversation talk to each other
establish links and from there from
there to reread the world because obviously
we are not going to change the world just
talking but talking
we reinterpret the world and
reinterpreting it in some way what
we are changing what I want that
you take away this afternoon is the
beautiful world of words the
extraordinary power that we have as
people when we talk and what is it
distinguishes us and the need to refound
the world from there to change the
history of our country from there and
of course make us new people
with new words and from there change
the world and not drown in pool of
balls
Thank you
[Applause]
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