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[...]Hamacher goes on to say: "[w]hosoever speaks, speaks from outside of rights and laws, and his language … works upon the suspension" of all concepts of "'authority,' 'power,' [and] 'law'" (Hamacher 156–57). Taking up the notion of sovereignty that is implicit in a claim to wield power "over" another, Lauren Schachter develops a reading of Anna Laetitia Barbauld's Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem within the context of debates concerning the English language in the eighteenth century, which coincided with an attentiveness to those "interstitial parts of speech" that distinguish English from more inflected classical languages such as Greek and Latin. According to the premises of the atomists, various and infinitely variable "positionings" or "positura" render discrepant things, which, in the absence of a natural and solid foundation, entails the consequence that all things can also always be otherwise. [...]special thanks to Brian McGrath for sharing in the process of editing the essays that he, Jan Mieszkowski, and I gathered for this publication. 1.