From “The Book of Silences” Introduction to Volume 1
The Book of Silences, Volumes 1 – 23343 From the introduction to Volume 1 … the editors have found the task of compiling all the silences of recorded history a…
Tag: the quest for silence
“The silent are never at home in our culture again”
Adam DeVille has a fascinating pair of posts (one here, one here) on Maggie Ross‘ Silence: A User’s Guide. Both posts are worth reading in full (and I must now…
Silence and the limits of language
“That for which we find words in something already dead in our hearts. There always is a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.” – Nietzsche, The Twilight of…
“In Search of Grace” , Peter Reason
From James Common’s blog, an extract from a fascinating sounding book whose themes seem to chime with my own interests. I particularly found this passage resonant: ‘Silence’ is a fascinating…
#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…
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…
An eerie silence in the garden.
Early today I saw a rustle in the patch of grass in the middle of the garden, and a cat emerged, lethargically fleeing. Probably not coincidentally, there were far fewer…
Séamus Sweeney 