Silence: In the Age of Noise

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Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge, who has voyaged to the South Pole all alone, on the importance of finding silence...

What is silence? Where is it? Why is it more important now than ever?” were three questions they wanted answered. Silence : In the Age of Noise หรือฉบับแปลภาษาไทยในชื่อ ‘เงียบ’ ของสำนักพิมพ์ OMG books ฉันยกมือสมัครใจเป็นลูกค้าทันทีLccn 2017012758 Ocr tesseract 5.1.0-1-ge935 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0001186 Openlibrary_edition Erling Kagge เขียนวิเคราะห์ถึงความเงียบในบริบทต่างๆ ผ่านสายตาของมุมมองส่วนตัวในฐานะคนเป็นพ่อที่ลูกๆ พลัดหลงอยู่ในโลกโซเชียลตลอดเวลา ผ่านข้อมูลและการทดลองทางวิทยาศาสตร์ ผ่านโลกศิลปะ ดนตรี ศิลปิน และผ่านประสบการณ์การเดินทางครั้งสำคัญของเขา

Sitting there at the dinner table, I suddenly remembered their curiosity as children. How they would wonder about what might be hiding behind a door. Their amazement as they stared at a light switch and asked me to “open the light”. My children hardly pause any more. They are always accessible, and almost always busy. “Everyone is the other, and no one is himself,” wrote the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. The three of them tend to sit in front of a screen – whether alone or together with others. I do it too. Become engulfed in my smartphone, enslave myself to my own tablet – as a consumer and at times as a producer. I am constantly interrupted, interruptions engendered by other interruptions. I rummage around in a world that has little to do with me. Attempt to be effective until I realise I won’t get any further regardless of how effective I’ve become. It feels like trying to find your way through fog on a mountain, without a compass at hand, and ending up walking around in circles. The goal is to be busy and effective, nothing else. First of all: yeah, I bet. Fun dinner table convo. Second: Kagge tries to use this story to make a point about the evils of technology, but isn't the actual takeaway here that technology is AMAZING and allowed a DYING MAN TO NAME HIS CHILD ON THE PHONE WITH HIS WIFE FROM MOUNT EVEREST? Dude. There are about 10,000 anecdotes one could use to prove the perils of tech, and you're going with this? Silent night, holy night; All is calm, all is bright": there is something about the lulling rhythm and the soothing final cadence of Silent Night that captures the spirit and quietude of Christmas – if not always the reality, with frantic preparations and merriment replacing the opportunity for quiet, reflection and true connection.

The author spent fifty days alone in Antarctica, "On the twenty second day I wrote in my journal: At home I only enjoy 'big bites' Down here I am learning to value miniscule joys. The nuanced hues of the snow. The wind abating. Formations of clouds. Silence."

Yaklaşık bir yıldır penceremden birkaç binanın yükselişini izliyorum. Toprağın kazılmasını, katların biçimlenmesini. İzlemekle kalmıyor onu dinliyorum da. Müthiş bir gürültü. Pazar sabahları da dahil olmak üzere.. Kulaklarımı tırmalıyor ama uyumaya devam ediyorum. Silence, Kagge emphasizes, is not simply the absence of noise, but a "full emptiness, a stillness of the mind." Erling Kagge is quite an impressive man. He was the first person in the world to walk alone to the South Pole. He was also the first to surmount the "three poles" – North, South and the summit of Mount Everest. He’s the founder of a publishing house and a well-respected author. I was thrilled to read what he had to say about the value of silence in our noisy world. I found this book deeply unsatisfying. Whatever it's about, it's not really about silence. Erling Kagge is a well known explorer and traveller. My expectations, based on the book's summary, was that he would be writing about his experiences of silence journeying to the North or South Poles, for example, and that he might reach some profound conclusions. But no! As an explorer Erling Kagge is world class; as a writer he is equally gifted. This breathtaking, inspiring little book teaches us how to find precious moments of silence - whether we are crossing the Antarctic, climbing Everest, or on the train at rush hour' - Sir Ranulph Fiennes

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Erling เล่าถึงศิลปินด้านการแสดงสดอย่าง มารินา อบราโมวิค ที่ทำให้ความเงียบกลายเป็นศิลปะรูปแบบหนึ่ง ครั้งหนึ่งในปี 2010 เธอนั่งเฉยๆ เป็นเวลา 736 ชั่วโมงกับ 30 นาที ใน MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) สบตาผู้เข้าชมกว่า 1,500 คนโดยไม่พูดอะไรสักคำ เมื่อนั่งนานขึ้นๆ เธอก็ได้ยินเสียงต่างๆ ที่อยู่ไกลนอกตัวตึกออกไป ศิลปินอยู่กับความเงียบได้เนิ่นนาน แม้ในครั้งการเดินทางไปทะเลทรายครั้งแรก เธอจะรู้สึกกลัวมันก็ตาม

On a sailing trip in the spring of 1986, pushing towards Cape Horn off the coast of Chile in the South Pacific Ocean, I was reminded of this. Early one morning, while alone on night watch between midnight and 4am, the world was dead silent. But then, I heard a sound that seemed like a long, deep breath just west of the boat. I had no idea what it could be. I turned 90 degrees in the direction of the sound and spotted a whale just off the starboard side. A mere calling distance away. Have you ever read a book that resonated with you more so than usual because you read it at the right time in your life? For me, this was that book. At the time of reading it, I've been laid up for 6 weeks after ankle surgery which has given me more than enough time to think about what sort of direction I want for 2018. As someone that's always enjoyed time alone but makes a living from the internet, finding silence within noise is something that's important to me...and I've never read a better approach on the matter than this book. The gorgeous pictures at the beginning of each segment, are breathtaking. If you are an introspective person, as I am, you will find much of value in this wonderful book.Do note that I am referring here, as Kagge and likely Pascal are, to "western" humanity, as I am aware that many eastern cultures and traditions allow for a much larger place for silence than is typically seen in the western world.) The alternative is to not think anything at all. You may call this meditation, yoga, mindfulness or merely common sense. It can be good. I take pleasure in meditating and practising yoga. I’ve also taken up the cousin to this practice – hypnosis – and hypnotised myself for 20 minutes to disconnect. That also works well. I lie there hovering a couple of centimetres above my bed each afternoon. What is silence? Why is it more important than ever?’ … Erling Kagge. Photograph: Simon Skreddernes