Re: MCA, Burke's parlor, & Husserl

Dale Cyphert (DXC20 who-is-at PSUVM.PSU.EDU)
Sat, 29 Jun 96 21:00 EDT

Seems to me that 'noisiness' could be more neutrally termed as 'a strong
presence'. I'm still working on the voice/presence/kairos model, of
course. But as I think about this, part of the point of 'good'
disruption is that it is well timed, and sometimes it does not involve
speech at all. A silence at a time when 'make nice' talk is expected, a
pause before the quiet restatement of someone else's words. A pointed
removal of oneself from the conversation.

What is wanted, is a sense of positive impact, rather than reactive or
repressed states. Sometimes the person making the most 'noise' is the
person with the least rhetorical effect.

Regards, Dale Cyphert
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