... found in the radical wing of the mystical tradition. (Cf., among Christian texts, the Mystica Theologica of Dionysius the Areopagite, the anonymous Cloud of Unknowing. the writings of Jacob ... concept of art as “expression” is what gives rise to one common, but dubious, version of the notion of silence, which invokes the idea of the ineffable.” The theory supposes that the province of ... toward anti-art, the elimination of the “subject” (the “object,” the “image”), the substitution of chance for intention, and the pursuit of silence. In the early, linear version of art’s relation...