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Book
of Silence
Das Schweigenbuch
A discourse
venture...
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Book
of Silence
Das Schweigenbuch
A discourse
venture...
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Martin Heidegger
"Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words. "
Book of Silence, 10th century, Japan
The vulgar depiction of silence is
the speech, the text itself.
Its lack of strong defined meaning
or its polysemantic excess gives it unidentified, undeciphered expression.
In our civilized (cyber) discourse
everything is reduced to the meaning of 1 and 0 and their combinations.
The rest is silence.
But the logos-ness of our Western
European being doesn't allow silence.
Silence is forbidden.
The subject of natural totality of
text (signified presence) is the book.
How then is possible a Book
of Silence, Das Schweigenbuch?
How can I speak about silence?
How can I be part of a cyber-discourse
at all?
"so,
would it have been better to have remained silent? would it be better,
without
extolling its paradoxical traits, to live in what makes it contemporary to a past which it has never been possible to live? wittgenstein's all
too famous and too often repeated precept, 'whereof one cannot speak, there one must be silent' - given that by enunciating it he has
not been able to impose silence on himself - does indicate that in the final analysis one has to talk in order to remain silent. but with
what kinds of words?"
[maurice blanchot]
It is an interactive attempt on cyber-discourse, on silence.
The idea is to write a book of silence in a certain mode of its possibility.
So you're invited to send anything you think might find place here...
Text, anti-text, definition, thought or image...
...poem or essay or anything else.
The Book of Silence is a point somewhere between philosophy and art.
So just try to join writing The Book
of Silence.
Publish here and be part of the project.
You can also send any comments or whatever to me. 
I will be glad if you help the project develop.
