Bodies, silences, and disciplines: on the ways to confine and their possible educations

Abstract

The text analyzes the issue of silence in a contemporary context, thinking from its double Latin meaning: that of taceo, as silencing; and that of sileo, as a silence that expands subjective spaces of creation, suspending previous significant codifications. The analysis goes through the relationships between ways of silence and discipline (of oneself or the other) and their reverberations in the bodies, based on the thoughts of Michel Foucault and José Gil. The reflection culminates thinking about the silence that sometimes operates as moralizing pedagogy, other times as a pedagogical act that opens space for new modes of existence.