Jimmie Durham
Oui/pas oui, like Une machine désire de l'instruction comme un jardin désire de la discipline, refers to the binary system of the lace-making machines in Calais, France. Instead of the expected yes/no, Durham uses here explicitly yes/not yes, since in the Cherokee language the word “no” doesn’t exist. An example of that is that in order to say "no water" a Cherokee speaker would use the expression "the water is all gone from here".
