In the silence of culture is an essay at once deep and accessible, in which Carmen Pardo addresses one of the fundamental concepts to understand the changes that have occurred in the world from the beginning of World War I to the present day: the staging of the social and the political through the mass media, with the consequent disintegration of the concept in the artistic field in the artistic field , which, in many cases, must face the deep silence that underlies, like an incurable wound, buried in that marasmus of representation. The colorful, cheerful tonadilla road that takes us to Disneyland is infested with corpses. Carmen Pardo approaches all this paying special attention to the field that has always focused her works, music.

In a thorough but agile way, the author reflects on the transformations in ways of representing and conceiving war and destruction – noting, very acutely, that the technologies that make these wars possible are, in turn, those that allow them to be represented – progressively incorporating their categories into the daily discourse and reality – from Nazi eugenics to healthism or the physical and racial ideals embodied in Barbie; from the music that accompanied concentration camp prisoners to the catchy choruses to motivate a company's employees; of the cybernetics that guided missiles to the computing that guides our lives in our global hive robotics. In the silence of culture it is a fundamental exercise to understand the historical and multidimensional development of the sociopolitical, artistic and business forces that have played a decisive role in building the dizzying chaos and senselessness we experience today.