Happy World Listening Day!
It is World Listening Day. I am a bit leery of too many confected “Days” However, anything that encourages listening is itself to be encouraged. From the World Listening Project…
Tag: silence
#OceanOptimism & the psychology of powerlessness and hope from current BBC Wildlife Magazine
The current issue of BBC Wildlife Magazine has a fascinating cover story by Elin Kelsey on hope and optimism versus despair in how we think and act about the environment. Essentially, much…
Marie Thompson on noise, “the conservative politics of silence”, and soundscapes
Recently I posted a link to an interview with sound artist Lawrence English. Via Lawrence English’s twitter I came across this fascinating interview with Dr Marie Thompson, a Lecturer at the Lincoln School of Film…
“sound as a way of sense-making”
Sound Artist Lawrence English on the Power of Radical Listening From Observer.com Interview here How did you become interested in working with sound as a creative medium? When I…
Thoughts on Silence From Augustinian Abbey, Fethard, Tipperary
I have blogged here and here and here and here and here about silence. I have, in more pretentious moments, contemplated essaying a philosophy of silence. How much have I actually sat in silence? How much have I actually…
Josef Pieper on silence and leisure
I came across this on the ever wonderful First Known When Lost blog: “Leisure is a form of silence, of that silence which is the prerequisite of the apprehension of…
Gordon Hempton, One Square Inch of Silence, and the Philosophy of Silence
It is good to see Gordon Hempton and the One Square Inch of Silence project getting some coverage. Hempton’s book is much the best of the series of search-for-silence books which…
Hesuchia – “we strive in order to be at rest”
My last few posts raised the risk that this blog would turn into a series of quotes from Alasdair MacIntyre’s “After Virtue” (a book I am well aware has many critics) – so now…
Séamus Sweeney 