> On Wed, 21 May 1997, Mark Holloway wrote:
>
> > I'm doing some thinking about silence for a dissertation on Harold Pinter
> > (I'm a lit. student) and would appreciate some input/advice/feeback.
> > Remembering the passage in The Dangerous Individual about the defendant
> > who refuses to speak (promting a call to defend himself from the judge)
> > has lead me to think about the relationship between silence and power -
> > especially in terms of silence being both a sign of defiance and of
> > complicity. I would really appreciate any suggestions/arguments/guidance
> > from anyone on the list. If you can point me in the direction of any
> > texts (by Foucault or otherwise) that you feel I ought to look at then
> > that would be a great help.
> >
> > I look forward to hearing from you all,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
>
And there's also The Who's rock-opera, "Tommy." It doesn't have anything
to do with Foucault, but it does sort of poetically deal with the issue of
silence; society's attempt to overcome that silence; society's
valorization of, envy of, censoriousness towards those who keep silent;
the medical profession's desire to cure it, and so on. But perhaps
something like this flies too low to make it onto your radar screen.
--John
>
> > I'm doing some thinking about silence for a dissertation on Harold Pinter
> > (I'm a lit. student) and would appreciate some input/advice/feeback.
> > Remembering the passage in The Dangerous Individual about the defendant
> > who refuses to speak (promting a call to defend himself from the judge)
> > has lead me to think about the relationship between silence and power -
> > especially in terms of silence being both a sign of defiance and of
> > complicity. I would really appreciate any suggestions/arguments/guidance
> > from anyone on the list. If you can point me in the direction of any
> > texts (by Foucault or otherwise) that you feel I ought to look at then
> > that would be a great help.
> >
> > I look forward to hearing from you all,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
>
And there's also The Who's rock-opera, "Tommy." It doesn't have anything
to do with Foucault, but it does sort of poetically deal with the issue of
silence; society's attempt to overcome that silence; society's
valorization of, envy of, censoriousness towards those who keep silent;
the medical profession's desire to cure it, and so on. But perhaps
something like this flies too low to make it onto your radar screen.
--John