We no longer esteem ourselves sufficiently when we communicate ourselves. Our true experiences are not at all garrulous. They could not communicate themselves even if they tried. That is because they lack the right word. Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond... Language, it seems, was invented only for what is average, medium, communicable. With language the speaker immediately vulgarizes himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols


Insurrectionary acts and movements require breaking silence - silence about the very existence as well as the activity or injury of the collective insurrectionary subject.
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But if the silences in discourses of domination are a site for insurrectionary noise, if they are the corridors we must fill with explosive counter-tales, it is also possible to make a fetish of breaking silence. Even more than a fetish, it is possible that this ostensible tool of emancipation carries its own techniques of subjugation - that it converges with non-emancipatory tendencies in contemporary culture (for example, the ubiquity of confessional discourse and rampant personalization of political life), that it establishes regulatory norms, coincides with the disciplinary power of confession, in short, feeds the powers we meant to starve.

Wendy Brown, "In the 'folds of our own discourse': The Pleasures and Freedoms of Silence" (1996) 3 U Chi L Sch Roundtable 185