inarticulable

But however much we might be writing as an attempt to figurate an otherwise inarticulable awareness of our own fucked-upness (and to thereby comprehend and control it), the full reality may be less simple.

Genius in a Bottle Hal Duncan 2009

But however much we might be writing as an attempt to figurate an otherwise inarticulable awareness of our own fucked-upness (and to thereby comprehend and control it), the full reality may be less simple.

Archive 2009-05-01 Hal Duncan 2009

It's precisely because we can't construct an accurate articulation B, because the situation is inarticulable in purely representational language, that we model it in symbolic terms, where the true/false evaluation is kind of beside the point.

Genius in a Bottle Hal Duncan 2009

It's precisely because we can't construct an accurate articulation B, because the situation is inarticulable in purely representational language, that we model it in symbolic terms, where the true/false evaluation is kind of beside the point.

Archive 2009-05-01 Hal Duncan 2009

Given the co-existence of a variety of mutually exclusive truth-claims upon which apparently hang the salvation of millions and in the name of which people are willing to die and to kill, paradox offers a method of reading that replaces violence with the indirect and ultimately inarticulable feeling that one is in the presence of something beyond words.

Byron and Romantic Occidentalism 2008

To make sense of this the reader must understand it as symbol for the absent subject, the vicious illogic of a no-win situation so incredibly, inedibly fucked-up as to be representatively inarticulable.

Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (1) Hal Duncan 2008

To make sense of this the reader must understand it as symbol for the absent subject, the vicious illogic of a no-win situation so incredibly, inedibly fucked-up as to be representatively inarticulable.

Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008

Sorry to go all inarticulable Potter Stewart test on you.

McCain Camp Denies Any Unethical Conduct 2009

Because it was overwhelmingly wonderful for me, too, to the point of being pretty much inarticulable.

And It Was Good 2009

No, it was an inarticulable something to the character of Mouse in Nova that I found utterly compelling.

Notes from New Sodom: To the Water-Fountains by Hal Duncan 2009