Abstract

"Language Speaks for Itself" explores the idea that language is not merely a human tool but an autonomous, living force. Drawing on thinkers from Jewish mysticism to Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Derrida, Burroughs, and others, the essay argues that language precedes, shapes, and even controls human thought and existence. It is at once creative, parasitic, viral, and rhetorical—an organism that speaks itself into being and speaks us into being human.