"Language is not reducible to communication. It is a matter of placemaking, an economy of offering care and responding to flows. To speak anew is to risk being stupid, to be diagonal and oriented. To speak is to be reconstituted. To speak is to fall prostrate. To speak is to be immersed in fluids that exceed the transactionality of meaning: it is to anticipate, co-create, and shape the world together. In the beginning was the Word...There are other languages we are trying to learn these days: the language of the future. The language of justice. Of freedom. Of Ursula le Guin's 'Omelas'. I have a strong suspicion that even if we mastered all the words, we wouldn't be close to 'speaking' - at least not in the performatively sociomaterial ways I reframe 'voice'.

Bayo Akomolafe