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In this article, I deterritorialize the subject by thinking with concepts in the new empiricisms. Thinking first with Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the Body without Organs, and then with Deleuze and his reading of Bergson’s concept duration, I attempt a reimagining of voice that starts with an ontological unit no longer that of the individual human being. Given this rupture, I pose the following questions: What might it mean to think voice in its many forms as not linked to an “I” of the humanist subject? What does a rethinking of the “I” portend for thinking voice? Is there an “I” of the inquirer or narrator that can be burdened with voice in the new empiricisms? What kind of voice can be thought once voice no longer has to be present, emanating from a unique, essentialist subject, (“I”) conscious to itself? In other words, if there is no subject in the humanist sense, what form does research or thought take in the new?
Lisa A. Mazzei (Tue,) studied this question.