Methodologies of voice: Towards posthuman voice analytics

• Main Author: Rachelle Chadwick
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020-11-01
• Series: Methods in Psychology
• Subjects: Voice; Posthuman methodologies; Embodiment; Dialogical; Posthuman voice analytics
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590260120300084

This paper rethinks the concept of voice in ways that resist normative humanist assumptions and explores the possibilities of an alternative posthuman ontologics of voice for qualitative praxis. I sketch the contours of a feminist posthuman phenomenology of voice in which the embodied, material, relational, and transcorporeal qualities of breathy bodies are foregrounded. Thinking with the figurations of ‘breathy embodiment’ and ‘diffractive voices’, I introduce posthuman voice analytics as a form of qualitative praxis. Five central aspects of posthuman voice analytics are outlined, namely: multivocality, process, interruption, dialogicality and the situated politics of listening.