Speak / Stop

An irreverent semiotic fever dream that weighs meaning and meaning-making against idea and ideology.We have read Proust but were not sureWho has really read ProustBesides a few ProustiansWe are no ProustiansDespite not being anti-Proustian...Speak / Stop comprises two interrelated texts: a chorus of unidentified voices followed by a work of literary criticism that only Nomi Lefebvre could writea semiotic fever dream that weighs meaning and meaning-making against idea and ideology.Abstracted, irreverent, and full of biting satire, Lefebvre picks apart hypocrisies in our lives and the language of our lives, skewering our literary pieties before delving headfirst into the paradox of self-criticism. Working against conventional notions of genre and form, Speak / Stop is a madhouse of earthworm sentences interrogating concerns of class and taste, ease, and inclusion/exclusion that are the foundations of Lefebvres work.