Stephen Kurczy

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” concluded the seventeenth-century philosopher Blaise Pascal. The nineteenth-century Danish theologian Søren Kierkegaard prescribed quiet to remedy “all the ills of the world.” The twentieth-century monk Thomas Merton embraced monastic silence as a way of coming closer to God.”
― Stephen Kurczy, The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence

“Through the lens of our techno-normative values, the cultural significance of a dead zone is a mistake, an error to be corrected, a gap in service or infrastructure that must be addressed,”
― Stephen Kurczy, The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence