Adriana Cavarero and the Primacy of Voice

Adriana Cavarero locates uniqueness in the sonorous materiality of our voices. She recognizes three aspects of voice: as unique vocality, as relationality, and as politics. She argues that recognition of the uniqueness of voices can helps us resist the logocentrism of the semantic dimension of voice...

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