Chapter 3 Voicing
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This chapter returns to the infancy that is without the ability to speak in an effort to open op our understanding of voicing and speaking beyond meaning, representation, dialogue, and deliberation. I turn first to the Italian composer Luciano Berio, which inverts the dominant relationship between music and voice, with the latter present but fragmented and unintelligible. Next I turn to paganism and laughter during the French Revolution, which is not apolitical but instead continually displaces the order and place of politics. Finally, I examine the different voices that Lyotard hears in Freud: lexis (the articulated elements of the voice that signify) and phonè (the infant, affective, and mute elements of the voice that signals only itself). Throughout, I draw out the different ways our understanding, experience, and practice of voicing work according to the different forms of inhuman education.