The Listening Subject, Revisited: A Response to the Virtual Symposium on Listening

Miyako Inoue responds to the virtual symposium on listening, which brings together commentaries by Diego Arispe‐Bazán, Aris Moreno Clemons, Kinga Koźmińska, Stephanie V. Love, Vincent Pak, Anna‐Marie Sprenger, Ariana Steele, Lacey Wade, and Tsung‐Lun Alan Wan. Reading these studies alongside her 2003 article, “The Listening Subject of Japanese Modernity and His Auditory Double: Citing, Sighting, and Siting the Modern Japanese Woman,” she hears her own earlier questions reverberating, renewed and transformed by these studies. In them, she finds counter‐models of communication that insist on “listening” as the site and means of world‐making and subject‐constitution.