ABSTRACT

It is in the physical concreteness of the social space of silence that it cannot be abstracted. The reason is that every text is permeated by the notion of self-reference. The impossible challenge is nevertheless to think-and-act in such a way that there is no difference between the languages I am writing in and the phenomena I am writing about. Eventually this raises inescapable questions about the power of language and the language of power, about the truth of silence and the silence of truth, about mental prefixes and linguistic experiments, about you and me.