Abstract:
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.
