The perdigoto and the Sars-Cov-2: the voice in posthuman worlds

Abstract

We seek, in dialogue with the so-called posthumanist perspectives, with discourse theories, and alongside the effects of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic, to describe the emergence of a new cartography for the voice, as an interspecies semiotic-discursive-material complex that challenges the status of the human as produced by European modernity. To this end, drawing on a Foucauldian framework and the Baradian concepts of agency and intra-action, it is proposed that the coexistence between humans and the Sars-CoV-2 virus, by producing a pandemic, has brought forth new regimes of intelligibility, visibility, and audibility for voice that, in turn, require an epistemological revision that considers presence, the vulnerability of bodies, and the asymmetrical distribution of listening, life, and death. It is assumed, finally, the ethical turn that the voice requests in the sphere of body-to-body relations, in its materiality and discursiveness, in every way, clash of struggles, that characterizes life and inter-species relations on Earth.