Whereas it sought tirelessly in the regions of life or labour for something that might provide it with an object, or with its conceptual models, or its real and fundamental ground, it paid relatively little attention to language; its main concern was to clear away the obstacles that might oppose it in its task; for example, words had to be freed from the silent content that rendered them alien, or language had to be made more ﬂexible and more ﬂuid, as it were, from within, so that once emancipated from the spatializations of the understanding it would be able to express the movement and temporality of life.