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The Case for Silence
I consider “doing nothing” both as a kind of deprogramming device and as sustenance for those feeling too disassembled to act meaningfully.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Breaking from the Pace of the Net
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Only silence enables us to say something unheard of. The compulsion of communication, by contrast, leads to the reproduction of the same, to conformism:
So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t
George Prochnik’s explanation for why he wrote In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise