{"id":160188,"date":"2026-02-25T10:52:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&p=160188"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:14:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:14:42","slug":"cultural-practices-of-silence-as-modes-of-care","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/science-and-humanities\/cultural-practices-of-silence-as-modes-of-care-160188\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural practices of silence as modes of care"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The lecture draws on 20th-century literature to examine various cultural techniques of silence and analyzes them with regard to their forms of (self-)care. Self-determined, sovereign silence preserves secrets and provides protected spaces for the development of new attitudes. However, not every silence is self-determined, not every silence sovereign. Alongside sovereign silence, there are forms of silence that signify self-denial or a breakdown of communication. For example, the author Audre Lorde writes of the desire to see one\u2019s own fear in proper proportion and to be able to translate silence into language. Lorde does not speak of a life without fear, but rather of a relationship to fear that depends on the ways in which one practices silence. It would mean not allowing silence to turn into tyranny or catastrophe, but instead finding a measure between speaking and remaining silent\u2014one in which silence can also function as a \u201cmode of resistance to power\u201d (Wendy Brown, 2005).<\/p>\n

The lecture series is being held as part of a collaboration between all institutions of the Humboldt Forum. <\/em><\/p>\n

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