“What I do with words is make them explode so that the nonverbal appears in the verbal. That is to say that I make the words function in such a way that at a certain moment they no longer belong to discourse, to what regulates discourse [….] And if I love words it is also because of their ability to escape their proper form, whether they interest me as visible things, letters representing the spatial visibility of the word, or as something musical or audible. That is to say,

I am also interested in words, paradoxically, to the extent that they are nondiscursive, for that’s how they can be used to explode discourse.”

-Jacques Derrida, from “The Spatial Arts,” an interview (1990)