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April 16 Week Fourteen: Vocality as Textuality<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through our feminist and media archaeology approach to nonstandard textuality, we have been building a history of writing that is not exclusionary but rather is inclusionary.  This history has included examination of graphic textiles such as women\u2019s needlework (Karen Kruger), memorial engravings, weavers and circuit builders (Lisa Nakamura), wearable tech (Susan Elizabeth Ryan), and today we turn to two text technologies that are independent of traditional publishing institutions\u2013specifically the podcast series Sounding Out!<\/em>
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Anne Carson \u201cThe Gender of Sound<\/a>\u201d Glass, Irony and God<\/em>. New York: New Directions Books, 1995. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roland Barthes \u201cThe Grain of the Voice<\/a>\u201d
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\u201cBONUS EPISODE: PODCASTING, PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP, AND ACCOUNTABILITY<\/a>\u201d and read Hannah McGregor\u2019s editorial statement on Scholarly Podcasting Open Peer Review<\/a> 
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Sounding Out! Podcast #40: Linguicide, Indigenous Community and the Search for Lost Sounds<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/soundstudies.wordpress.com\/tag\/orality\/?iframe=true&preview=true\/feed\/<\/a> or sound out! Podcast #47 on the Navajo singer songwriter Kaibah (Kay Bennett)
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Ethical Storytelling in Podcasting (1 hour): https:\/\/podbay.fm\/podcast\/435193796\/e\/1569502839<\/a>
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Textual Practice with Bruce<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Podcast: Textual Remediation and Socio-Cultural Remixing
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\tThe art of podcasting depends exclusively upon the voice, that dynamic instrument that informs all language, rhetoric, argument, and storytelling. However, podcasting places primacy not on the speaker but instead on the listener in a Derridean erasure that deconstructs our basic understanding of the nature of mass media, which operates as a speaker-savvy, production-heavy, and listener-light collection of modalities. The podcast as a medium marries the simplicity of everyday talk in a conversational tone with technology that favors portability over fancy production.\tThe readings from this week point to the fact that voice, alone, is both a text and a technology. In \u201cThe Grain of the Voice,\u201d Roland Barthes posits that voice exists as a \u201cpheno-text\u201d and a \u201cgeno-text\u201d (Barthes, \u201cGrain,\u201d 181). Borrowing from Julie Kristeva, Barthes argues that the geno-text is the \u201cspace where significations germinate,\u201d that is, an inside-of-the-body place where the articulations and modulations of the voice emanate to create \u201cexpression\u201d and \u201cdiction\u201d (Barthes, \u201cGrain,\u201d 182-83). Like a geometrically complementary angle, pheno-text exists as the \u201ctissue of cultural values,\u201d an outside-of-the-body place that represents the \u201cphenomena\u201d that the geno-text describes (Barthes, \u201cGrain,\u201d 182-83). Anne Carson argues that the phenomenology of sound uniquely inhabits the inside\/outside space simultaneously: \u201cEvery sound we make is a bit of autobiography. It has a totally private interior yet its trajectory is public\u201d (Carson 130). In other words, the Barthian-Kristevian geno-text projects from inside the body to meet the Barthian-Kristevian pheno-text that operates outside of the body. Therefore, podcasting as a genre that exclusively relies on the voice provides the vehicle that brings together literally and metaphorically text and <\/em>technology as an inside\/outside of the body-as-text experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In requiring the most ubiquitous 21st<\/sup> century devices \u2013 either a computer or a cellphone equipped with a free app \u2013 podcasting is the most democratic mass media ever developed and the most accessible and arguably most successful of the \u201cnew\u201d mass media platforms. The practical import of the podcast cannot be denied as anyone with a computer or a cellphone and WiFi access literally can reach the world. From a theoretical perspective, podcasting provides an interesting dive into at least three fundamental queries common to new media applications. First, podcasting buries the author better than Barthes. Barthes argues that the reader takes primacy over the author. Adapting Barthes\u2019 death of authorial intention to the digital download, the podcast places primacy on the listener. For Barthes, text does not consist merely of words; rather, text is a \u201cspace of many dimensions\u201d and a \u201ctissue of citations,\u201d arising out of a \u201cthousand sources of culture\u201d (Barthes, \u201cDeath,\u201d 4). The podcast reflects the multiplicitous vicissitudes of interconnected citations emanating from the speaker, thus rendering it impossible to specify \u201cthe very identity of the body that [speaks]\u201d (Barthes, \u201cDeath,\u201d 1). Second, podcasting remediates the concept of text. Text returns to its original Aristotelian \u201cform\u201d as voice, yet in this \u201cnew\u201d 21st<\/sup> century form the voice is amplified and broadcast to an audience unimaginable by the Sophists yet in the same vein the podcaster is paid much as the Sophists were \u2013 for dispensing a specific brand of learned knowledge. Third, podcasting (re)creates a socio-cultural digital interface that (re)defines the how and why of textual practice. The vision of \u201cinterface\u201d that Lori Emerson posits is one of an individual who becomes simultaneously a reader-writer through the process of technological interaction \u2013 a physical body-to-text (re)production process that \u201ccreates\u201d a dynamic where the resulting \u201cinterface is equal parts user and machine\u201d (Emerson 22-23, 47). Podcasting is Emerson\u2019s theory come full circle. The user as speaker produces the body-to-text moment and the user as listener experiences the text-to-body result, thus (re)envisioning the nature of the individualized Emersonian reader-writer user-machine interface as a larger socio-cultural community digitally connected through the power of voice.”
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April 16 Week Fourteen: Vocality as Textuality Through our feminist and media archaeology approach to nonstandard textuality, we have been building a history of writing that is not exclusionary but rather is inclusionary.  This history has included examination of graphic textiles such as women\u2019s needlework (Karen Kruger), memorial engravings, weavers and circuit builders (Lisa Nakamura), … <\/p>\n

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