![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From the Orwellian apparatus devised in the classic 1984, which threatened the population with the warning, “Big Brother is watching you”, to more modern and sophisticated forms of surveillance (or, more precisely, dataveillance and biometrics), privacy concerns, freedom and truth are urgent issues in our contemporary global world dominated by information technology.Ĭoncerns of this kind were raised already in the 1970s by Michel Foucault in his influential works Discipline and Punish and History of Sexuality. Put at the service of power, silence can be a potent device to control society, becoming a means for disempowerment as much as a strategy for survival. Yet, its primary function goes beyond being a mere vehicle for expression, as it can turn into an effective tool to regulate the dynamics of dominance and submission. Unquestionably, silence is an indispensable resource for communication human interaction is not possible without it. Listen to silences,” Samuel Beckett once said. ![]()
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