The Time Being

Ottawa, Canada

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

Jacques Attali - Noise: The Political Economy of Music

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For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

Jacques Attali - Noise: The Political Economy of Music

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