02.AKAD - The Silences of Mies

Drawing on a series of readings of earlier interpretations of Mies, but also on discussions of other instances of the topos of silence in literature and music, the present essay attempts to understand the unavoidable plurality of this silence, to unearth its philosophical genealogy, and to connect it to the present moment, when the possibility and very sense of criticality as a strategy of negativity seem more questionable than ever.