THE SILENT LANGUAGE
A detailed exploration of cultural differences in the handling of time, space, and communication among various societies, impacting interactions between individuals from different cultures.
monoskop.orgTHE SILENT LANGUAGE
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Man’s perception of time is closely linked with his internal rhythms. But his responses to time are culturally conditioned.
Alvin Toffler • Future Shock
Monochronic cultures may be more “efficient” in their use of time, but in their treatment of time as a commodity, they lose the richness that comes with allowing tasks, conversations, and interactions to move forward at a more natural and sustainable pace.
Culture Study • The Diminishing Returns of Calendar Culture
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Cultures observing both linear and cyclic concepts of time see the past as something we have put behind us and the future as something that lies before us.
Richard Lewis • How Different Cultures Understand Time
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Illich goes on to identify three different kinds of silences as well as their destructive and degrading counterfeits. I won’t walk us through each of these, but I will draw your attention to a few portions of Illich’s discussion. The primary context for what Illich has to say here is the face-to-face encounter, and we would do well, in my view, to ... See more
L. M. Sacasas • Impossible Silences - The Convivial Society
When Edward Hall coined the term proxemics in The Hidden Dimension (1966), he used it to mean “social and personal space and man’s perception of it.”5 The role of space in our everyday lives is part of our culture. Our learned behaviors, he argues, are as foundational to our use of space as they are to other forms of verbal and nonverbal communicat
... See moreJohn A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
way of reaching understandings of what is going on , i.e. the foundations of world models and cultures in general.
Everyone’s Existential Crisis
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