Language as a HYPO-sense

Inspired by
Alain Badiou, Martin Heidegger, Axel Honneth, Huw Price, Rainar Maria Rilke, Carlo Rovelli, Hartmut Rosa, Ludwig Wittgenstein

To interpret language as something simple and rational that necessarily refers to something external is to create a false metaphysical problem - a problem of placement. The function of language is not to explain the world but to be in the world.

As extended as the exterior is, with all its sidereal dimensions, it cannot – even with all its astronomical distances – be expressed and recognized independently of the depth dimensions of our inwardness. The inwardliness of our inner space unlocks the open for us.

As prehistoric people applied the sense of smell to distinguish between "edible" and "poisonous" to live in nature, hyposubjects use their private language to sense between "coexistence" and "self-annihilation" to let nature live within them.

We are complex natural beings in a complex natural world. The ability to articulate our inner life and its relationship to the outer world has become our most fundamental sense of life - maybe even life-sense. It is how we acknowledge our own - and recognize others' - complex existence.

That is why we can - if we close our eyes and listen - sense how the inwardliness of inner space unlocks the open in another living being… Sense how the other living being wants to be in the world… Sense a metaphysical invitation where the difference between two natural beings is infinitely complex, but simultaneously is the essential quality in which coexistence can prosper.