You must have read this already, little circle with scratches in it (trying to decipher your margin notation system), but why not another hurrah for minor practices…

Languages are the jargons that hide the pure experience of language just as peoples are the more or less successfull masks of the factum pluralitatis. This is why our task cannot possibly be either the construction of these jargons into grammars or the recodification of peoples into state identities. On the contrary, it is only by breaking at any point the nexus between the existence of language, grammar, people and state that thought and praxis will be equal to the tasks at hand. The forms of this interruption—-during which the factum of language and the factum of community come to light for an instant—-are manifold and change according to times and circumstances: reactivation of a jargon, trobar clus, pure language, minoritarian practice of a grammatical language, and so on. In any case, it is clear that what is at stake here is not something simply linguistic or literary but, above all, political and philosophical.

(from Giorgio Agamben, “Languages and Peoples”, 1995)

i was wondering if he was speaking of the coming to light of language and community as a truthfulness in a somewhat sinister sense, as in weaknesses, the wrongdoings of language and maybe even community, but on further thought i realised my own old qualifications… i suppose he references its multitude-ness in that we cherish language and community as much as it hampers us, this being factum for simply what is, whereby the cracks of language, jargon and the escapes from grammar give us the unconcealing of language and community.