JOURNAL ARTICLE

Writing from Underground: Silence, Solitude, and the Fugitive Politics of Daoism in Mu Xin's Prison Notes.

  • Published In: Theory & Event, 2023, v. 26, n. 2. P. 258 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Yu, Peng 3 of 3

Abstract

This paper explores the political indeterminacy of silence. It does so by way of reexamining the relationship of silence, solitude, and incarceration. Drawing on the Daoist notion of "say-nothing" and engaging Chinese artist Mu Xin's Prison Notes , this paper excavates how silence facilitates fugitives by re-enabling their senses of seeing, hearing, and imagining in restoring their affective relations with the world. Situated in the obscurity between speaking and unspeaking, carceral silence brings to the fore dramatic actions that come to destabilize, transform, and re-constitute the lived experience under incarceration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Theory & Event. 2023/04, Vol. 26, Issue 2, p258
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:2572-6633
  • DOI:10.1353/tae.2023.0015
  • Accession Number:163524353
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