A pwoermd a day

                                                                          ogject (posted Saturday, July 03, 2010)

The shift from labial ('b') to guttural ('g'), the difference in a single sound-production, makes the putative forward-looking model 'object' a lot more problematical than it already is. Now literally stuck at the roof of the mouth.The ob-prefix doesn't find its exact semantical corollary in og- in any sense I can discover (except as its comical 'other'). Unless, of course, you sound out each letter. OG is street slang for original gangster and, by extension, may make 'ogject' a candidate for intercity dialect or a metaphor for the endearing clumsiness of first things. Perhaps 'ogject' is both what's to be found in a primitive 'protowriting' stage in language development (if ever there was one) and today a remnant, almost iconic, of that mythic past. Maybe the faint trace of the classical 'ogee' creates the nostalgia for more comforting classical world. Huth's pwoermd releases the kind of will to change that marks the 'dimentional': a transformation through simple letter substitution made possible by soluble language-reality ties. Perhaps a linguistic and socio-economic gridlock is envisaged here, a reluctance to be too self-assured in matters of things, words for things and the language-communities (the 'hood') they both come from. To encode experience and language in prearranged realities.

'Ogject'. There's something machine-like about it, a cyborg quality that stresses the relatively easily recombinant properties of all words. It chafes somehow. 'Og- now's an unconscious revulsion at the alien (and silently embedded) 'cog' nature of every object (and every object-creation): I see now Haraway couldn't have been more serious about the 'prosthetic' nature of culture-making activities. Say it. Feel it. 'Ogject' is hard to hear and touch: in precisely the way a primitive raw orality and tactility can be uncomfortably rediscovered through the acquisition of any new cultural trade. In the way that learning to write (as Melanie Klein's shown) can reveal initial primitive "gestures" as the hand goes stodgily to the page,  letters seen as a store of erotic and kinetic energies. 'Ogject' is perhaps the way a cyborg or child or old gangster writes the world of things.

Used in a sentence: The ogject of love is a little grainy to the touch.