ABSTRACT
Social stammering is enraptured by the word “Dada”: a staccato speech sound on the verge of exploding into a meaningful gush of rounded breath. Dada struggles to free itself from the language of anti-art and the slang of kitsch metropolitanism. Dada was made to disarm the rat-tat-rattle of the automatic weapons used in the First Machine War and the killing capitalist labor process out of which they were produced. Capitalist language is recognized only to the extent that it validates a society based on the logic of exchange. In capitalist civilization money really does talk; it is the only language that everybody is forced to understand. Stripped bare, the starting point is not speaking or even screaming, but breathing. Artaud says “for every feeling, every movement of the mind, every leap of human emotion, there is a breath that is attached to it”.
