Journeys of the Language. Other Ways of Orienting Ourselves.

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2024 — In Progress.

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• Printed Publication

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JOURNEYS OF THE LANGUAGE. Other Ways of Orienting

Ulises Matamoros Ascención in collaboration with:

Natalia Colmena Reyes
Alejandra Ascención Colmena
Catalina Sillero Colmena

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FOSILIFERA. A project by Lorena Mal.

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Edition: Ulises Matamoros Ascención
Design: Ulises Matamoros Ascención / Ediciones chasenthajni 

Texts: Ulises Matamoros Ascención
Translations: Natalia Colmena, Alejandra Ascención, Catalina Sillero, and Ulises Matamoros Ascención
Illustrations: Lenka Holíkova (pp) and Ulises Matamoros Ascención (pp)
Typography: Futura PT
Paper: Recycled Bond 75g / Gray Mina 90g
Print run: 100 copies (1st edition)

chasenthajni editions, 2024
Printed in Santa Inés Ahuatempan, 2025
@edicioneschasenthajni www.chasenthajni.org

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The body to which the buccal cord and symbolic, signifying articulation belong—the body that says I—is the same body of flesh that calls out and is called out by the various communicative correspondences of the world: with other flesh and other skins, with other souls, with what is radically other. The mother tongue is a speaking body that speaks for, through, and to bodies, and that, in hearing itself speak, also speaks to itself… it speaks with an overflowing fury. To conceal bodies—their carnal topology and the physical territory where they inhabit and interact—is to displace from the system of language its political and territorial right, its right to location. Language encircles and is articulated from and within the corners of physical and spiritual territory, but also within the corners of flesh and psyche. It arises from wounds, cavities, densities, and voids; from caves and ravines; from energies, drives, and desires; from the most intimate folds, from extreme symptoms, from lacks and borderland opacities… from happiness, laughter, and tears. Territory is an integral part of the speaking body, of its language, its politics, and its performativity.

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Ulises Matamoros Ahuatempan, México, 2025.