{"product_id":"how-to-speak-dead-walid-sadek","title":"How to speak dead – Walid Sadek","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"accroche\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003eA meditative reflection on language and its loss.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"citation\"\u003eHow does one language inherit another? Defeat, erase or live through another? \u003cem\u003eHow to speak dead\u003c\/em\u003e is Walid Sadek's meditative reflection on language, dead or victorious. At heart, beyond defeat and victory, it is a reflection on how one can approach a speaking that is of neither a living language nor a dead one. A speaking that knows loss and knows it is woven into every uttered word, every spoken sentence. A loss that becomes syntax.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There, where the battle is lost and won and where, after the hurly-burly is done, we may approach a speaking that is of neither a living language nor a dead one. A speaking that knows loss and knows it is woven into every uttered word, every spoken sentence. A loss that becomes syntax.\"\u003cbr\u003eWalid Sadek\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"note\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bioAuteur\"\u003eWalid Sadek (born 1966 in Beirut) is a Lebanese artist and writer. He is a professor at the Department of Fine Arts and Art History of the American University of Beirut.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\"\u003epublished in March 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\" itemprop=\"inLanguage\"\u003eEnglish edition\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\"\u003e9,6 x 14,8 cm (softcover)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\" itemprop=\"numberOfPages\"\u003e80 pages (ill.)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e978-1-955702-25-6\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Les Presses du Réel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52087643701568,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/3663\/8272\/files\/Howtospeakdead.png?v=1780519087","url":"https:\/\/stormbookstore.com\/products\/how-to-speak-dead-walid-sadek","provider":"STORM books \u0026 people","version":"1.0","type":"link"}