Video: Mickey Vallee on ‘Technology, Embodiment, and Affect in Voice Sciences’

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Mickey Vallee introduces his Body & Society article ‘Technology, Embodiment, and Affect in Voice Sciences: The Voice is an Imaginary Organ‘

Abstract

This article is interested in ‘voice imaging’ as a technical field through which people experience new relations between organic and inorganic forms of life. Grounded in a study of voice imaging in historical and contemporary scientific research, the article applies and expands on Bernard Stiegler’s ‘General Organology’, with an eye to understanding the voice as a dynamic capacity for volition. By exploring the scientific research into voice imaging, the article argues that the voice, as a cultural image, is an imaginary organ that transgresses the boundaries of technological, biological, physical, psychological, social and cultural frameworks.

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