The assertion of scholarly and creative insight is usually accompanied by discomfort. Anything worth saying carries the hazard of refutation or, if proven irrefutable, of growing pains. But this is especially so in the case of one category of insight—the unmentionable. This article examines the nature of the unmentionable, the ways in which it is sanctioned in the worlds of philosophy and design, and the redemptive power its rehabilitation has for various forms of discursive stagnancy. Beyond the normative boundaries of the present an open zone beckons us to challenge the assumptions of ethics, aesthetics, predictability, and intelligibility. Mentioning the unmentionable is an essential part of this challenge and its projected successes.

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学术和创造性洞察力的断言通常伴随着不适。任何值得说的东西都有被反驳的危险，或者，如果被证明是无可辩驳的，那就是成长的痛苦。但在一类洞察力——不可提及的洞察力的情况下尤其如此。本文考察了不可提及的本质，它在哲学和设计领域受到认可的方式，以及它的恢复对各种形式的话语停滞的救赎力量。超越当前的规范边界，一个开放区域召唤我们挑战伦理、美学、可预测性和可理解性的假设。提及不可提及的事情是这一挑战及其预期成功的重要组成部分。