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SUMMARY:Vox Mundi Straining to Make Sense of the Ecological Voice
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DESCRIPTION:This talk explores how scientists\, artists\, academics\, acti
 vists\, and other kindred spirits\, are attempting to “tune in” to the
  wavelength of the planet: a practice that carries with it a particularly 
 pressing urgency in a time of climate crisis and environmental devastation
 . Whether this be listening carefully to the famous song of humpback whale
 s\, the more muffled expressions of mushrooms\, or the silent swan-song of
  melting glaciers\, the vox mundi is an intriguing figure through which we
  might reorient our own relationship to the challenges of the Anthropocene
 . But what is really at stake in such attempts to “listen to the world
 ”? Are we truly finding expedient ways to attend to a forthcoming\, comm
 unicative\, or even effusively verbose\, planet? Or are we inventing new w
 ays to ventriloquize our own all-too-human mantras into an amplified echo 
 of our own narcissistic species-being?\n\n \n\nThe chapter will be discuss
 ed by Professor Naomi Waltham-Smith (Music\, Oxford).\n\n \n\nProfessor Do
 minic Pettman is University Professor of Media and New Humanities at The N
 ew School\, in New York City\, his research spans across various fields su
 ch as posthumanism\, animal studies\, critical theories of technology\, en
 vironmental humanities\, attention ecologies\, popular media forms\, and p
 hilosophies of desire. He is the author of Telling the Bees: An Interspeci
 es Monologue (Fordham\, 2024)\, Peak Libido: Sex\, Ecology\, and the Colla
 pse of Desire Polity\, 2020)\, Sonic Intimacy: Voice\, Species\, Technics 
 (Stanford\, 2017).
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LOCATION:Schwarzman Centre - Room 00.063\, Room 00.063 Schwarzman Centre R
 adcliffe Observatory Quarter\, Woodstock Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6GG U
 nited Kingdom
SPEAKER:Dominic Pettman (Professor of Media and New Humanities at The New 
 School in New York City)\, Naomi Waltham-Smith (Professor of Music at the 
 University of Oxford)
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