Walter Benjamin invites us to think language in a radically different way: not as a neutral medium of communication, but as something living, something creative. For him, language is not exclusively human: everything that exists speaks. It may do so through gesture, through form, or simply through presence. In short, everything expresses itself. Humanity occupies a distinctive position within this field: human beings do not merely speak, they are capable of naming – and in naming, they bring the world into being. Act of Creation Benjamin therefore reads the Book of Genesis as a moment of linguistic philosophy: “And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light” (Gen. 1:3). In the Gospel of John, this linguistic act is rendered even more explicit: “In the beginning was the Word” (John 1:1). The Word is the point of origin of all things. Naming, then, is not simply descriptive; it is world-making (Benjamin 1977, 140-157). In other words, naming draws things out of the unnameable...