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Title: Attachments of voice
Author: Zummer, Thomas
Others: European Graduate School
Keywords: Alterity
apparatus
artefact
artifactual
attachment
Being
capture
enunciation
Gestell
mass
performative
phantasm
phantasmatic
proper
improper
somatolysis
subject
subjectivation
desubjectivation
technics
Issue Date: 19-Dec-2012
Publisher: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Published in: Materiality 2012;12
Abstract: he apprehension (cognition and consumption) of vocalizations-speech, performance, recording-is naturalized, so as to appear as a commonplace phenomenon, unproblematic, uncritical and familiar. The artifactual nature of the attachment of voice to a body, whether represented/reproduced or present is rendered invisible, and, with the disappearance of a technical trace, a world vanishes. As Gilles Deleuze notes, when primary and secondary are indistinguishable-or unnoticed, as when the recognition of a voice on a telephone appears as a presence rather than a representation, or when such distinction doesn't matter-everything collapses to a plane of immanence, where substantive difference disappears. That is to say, a mediated and an unmediated voice are virtually the same;  what appears on a screen, and what had appeared before the screen are phenomenologically indifferent. To address and analyse the attachments of voice does not dismiss their immanence, but reproblematizes their contingencies, through a re/cognition of artifactuality in difference, as a medial condition of our contemporaneity.
Language: English
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10609/68466
ISSN: 1695-5951MIAR
Appears in Collections:2012, n. 12
Articles cientÍfics

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