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Exposures to Silence

其他書名	Barthes, Beckett, Nancy, Stevens
出版	University of London, 2016
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mG6O0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The influential final proposition of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus defines silence negatively, as the other of language. Contrary to this externalising trend of thought is the theme of silence as a quality of interiority and intimacy, as with John Cage's anecdote of an anechoic chamber, wherein silence became the ceaselessly sonorous plenitude of the body, as opposed to an absence. What unites these two contrastive accounts, however, is a logic of exposure: with the former, language is exposed to its outside; with the latter, exposure takes place as auditory auto-affection. I ask how this underlying logic of exposure-silence as exposure and exposure as silence-might be recuperated and strategized against prevailing discourses of linguistic inescapability. The first chapter negotiates two opposing modalities of silence in 20th century philosophy and literary theory, that is, 'apophasis' (or negative theology) and 'reticence' (which I understand through Heidegger's use of the term Verschwiegenhei~. Apophasis corresponds to a silence of ineffable transcendence, whereas reticence, keeping-silence, implies a silence of immanence. From this dichotomy, I develop the figure of a paradoxical 'silent voice', the trembling interminability of the possibility of speech anterior to speech, which conforms to Jean-Luc Nancy's liminal figure of 'transimmanence'. Chapter 2 develops the term 'silent voice' through a reading of Samuel Beckett's prose piece Compaf!Y, whose narrator is exposed-rather than interpellated-to silence, itself, as a phatic address.