Lionel P Ashcroft

  • In order to lose themselves in God, the Sufis were said to repeat their own name or the 99 names of God until they no longer meant anything. Try it yourself: in the everyday act of repeating a word, any word, on and on — “Really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,…

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  • This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #051, interrogates the the hypercomplex vectors of the hypothesis that “language is a virus” by triangulating structuralist semiotics, virological metaphors, and speculative cultural theory.

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