OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Apart from an example of self-control, silence for Gandhi represented a critique of voice and communication, both of which he subordinated to radical ignorance as a ground for moral action. He considered the understanding derived from voice to be both incomplete and unequally accessible, while suspecting its knowledge of others of presumption as well as the desire for control. This privilege given to silence was set within a context in which the colonial state depended upon communication while its nationalist enemies were preoccupied with voice. The Mahatma was concerned instead with the limits of voice and communication, criticizing their claims to authenticity and focusing on the incommunicable element that he thought was crucial in all human relations.
