A Manual for Listening to Quiet
09–09–2016
︎ MA Degree Show
︎ Centre for Research Archictecture
︎ Goldsmiths, UoL
To become quiet is usually regarded in a similar way to becoming
passive, signifying that one has weakened their capacity to act in a situation.
If to speak is to validate one’s existence, ‘our voices must be registered, and
so we must be heard’, does being quiet mean that one is no longer participating
or have given up their right to act? Quiet is an intrinsic part of all
relations but has been consigned, by our contemporary political culture, to
exist in the background of events. Here, quiet is considered firstly through
the notion of presence as a political form that precedes speech and
secondly what it means to be quiet vis-à-vis power.
“That won’t help you,” said the policemen, who always became very quiet, almost sad, when K. began to shout, and in that way confused him or, to some extent, brought him to his senses.
The Trial, Franz Kafka (1925)
“That won’t help you,” said the policemen, who always became very quiet, almost sad, when K. began to shout, and in that way confused him or, to some extent, brought him to his senses.
The Trial, Franz Kafka (1925)
