bangers
by owl · updated 4mo ago
bangers
by owl · updated 4mo ago
Good writing is specific and concrete.
owl added 4mo ago
"When everything is readily available and consumable, contemplative attention is impossible." (Byung-Chal Han, Vita Contemplativa)
owl added 4mo ago
Only silence enables us to say something unheard of. The compulsion of communication, by contrast, leads to the reproduction of the same, to conformism:
So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop
owl added 4mo ago
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