Decomposing Matter: From literary critique to language creation Palmer, Helen Revelles Benavente, Beatriz This article provides a context for the section “Creating Language and Theorizing Literature”. The editors of the section discuss both contemporary and historical articulations of the materiality of language from a new materialist perspective. The new materialist project comprises looking for the immanence of language via three realms: its relation, its theorization, and its creation. Therefore, moving away from representationalist practices demands a definition of language as animate, sensory material requiring creative labour for its realisation. The article provides an example of this materialization of language, via the concept of bodywording. 2024-02-09T08:07:41Z 2024-02-09T08:07:41Z 2020 journal article Palmer, Helen & Revelles-Benavente, Beatriz (2020). Decomposing Matter: From literary critique to language creation. Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research 1 (1): 109 - 137. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1344/jnmr.v1i1.29299 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/88771 10.1344/jnmr.v1i1.29299 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ embargoed access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional