Day 16: Silence

Before class:

Required

  • No readings are mandatory for this class.
  • Experiment with choosing not to speak when you might usually, or choosing to speak when you might typically not.

Recommended

  • Rich, A. C. (1978). Cartographies of silence. In The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977. W. W. Norton & Company.
  • Kanngieser, A., & Beuret, N. (2017). Refusing the world: Silence, commoning, and the Anthropocene. South Atlantic Quarterly, 116(2), 363–380.

During class:

Activities

  • Three good things (5-7 minutes)
  • Walking together: Listening (20 minutes)
  • Class discussion: (50 minutes)
    • Why would we choose to suspend the coupling of experience with words by inserting a window of time between “capturing” and “rendering” encounters in our Attentive Repetition and Logging practices?
      • Does this time lag function as a silence?
      • If so, what does this silence create?
      • If not, where can we find silence?
    • How might observation without words differ than observation with words?
    • Is there a meaningful space between silence the addition of words?
      • gestures
      • music
      • sounds made with the mouth that you would not considered language
    • If so, might our attention be guided differently in this space?

After class:

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