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Listening with/to Nature’s Voice: An Ethical Polyphony

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Abstract

I propose a holistic practice of interlistening (Lipari, 2014) with/to nature’s voice as an ethical eco-feminist intervention in the Western humanities that privilege speech acts (Corradi Fiumara, 1990, Location No. 15). As I discuss, this unfortunate cultural disengagement with listening as an object of desire is in fact a call of Western communicative praxis’ deep rooted disenfranchised grief, an inadequate and unrecognized pain of separation from the infant’s first point of connection, the mother’s voice. To address this loss, I offer that one attunes with/to nature’s fluid and nourishing voice much like Mladen Dolar’s (2006) idea of the acousmatic voice, the untraceable, material yet incorporeal sonic excess to re-enfranchise the mother’s lost voice in listening and imagine ethical communicative practices that welcome the Other.

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Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 151-162 (12 pages)

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

International Journal of Listening (Volume 30, Issue 3)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/09/2016

Publication status

Published - 01/09/2016

ISSN

1090-4018

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  • Scopus: 84963579507