Manifesto for Silence: Confronting the Politics and Culture of Noise

by Stuart Sim

This book makes an urgent demand for silence. The ability to think, to reflect, and to create are all highly dependent on regular access to silence. Yet in today's noisy, 24/7 society silence and quiet are under threat. And the business world only makes this worse with cynical marketing strategies abusing the power of noise: ever-diminishing oases of calm are hard to find.Stuart Sim argues that we need more, not less, silence. He explains why silence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748625917
• ISBN13: 9780748625918
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.8"