Mickey Vallee
Biographic Data
| ID | 278771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mickey Vallee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mickey |
| FAMILY NAME | Vallee |
| SIGNATURE | VALLEE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Athabasca University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5301-2388 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Does the Voice Have a Body? Esposito’s Vox Munus in an Age of Synthetic Voice
This article examines the relationship between voice, embodiment, and community by extending Roberto Esposito’s concepts of munus , communitas , and immunitas to the domain of voice. While voice is often treated as a bodily capacity and marker of individual authenticity, contemporary voice technologies, including brain/computer interfaces, AI-generated voices, and deepfake audio, destabilise this assumption. The article proposes Vox Munus as a co…
Do we need a posthumanist sociology? Notes from the Covid-19 pandemic
This article asks whether we need a posthumanist sociology, arguing that such a perspective can export a good deal of useful methodological and theoretical insight into the sociological toolbox. A posthumanist sociology is not a flattened ontology, in which we find agency in all things living and non-living. A posthumanist sociology asks instead what we do with the fundamental question of becoming both more and less human, following a surge of in…
Listening Beyond the Human
Sound technologies and sound sensor networks play a crucial role in our understanding of biodiversity loss in conservation biology and the environmental sciences. Among these technologies, the autonomous recording unit (ARU) has been widely used for studying longitudinal biodiversity loss. This article draws on fieldwork conducted in 2016 and 2017 at a bioacoustics research laboratory to explore the significance of the ARU, developed by Wildlife …
Grid of nows
This paper uses a collaborate sound and web design project as a beginning point for theorising sound recording and the problem of time. Inspired by the home soundscapes of COVID-19 lockdowns, the project asked volunteer recordists to record themselves preparing tea. The purpose of the project was to engage with a ritual in a way that elucidated its duration, as a means of resisting the quantification of time that dominated much of what life and b…
Incorporeal transformations in truth and reconciliation
Resonant Ecologies
This short reflection piece weaves a process of continuous becoming between seemingly disparate events: drums, spiders, accordions, dancers, fishers. It serves as an entry into Alfred North Whitehead's metaphysics, while elucidating the process of creativity that binds the temporal flux of events. In search of a resonant ecology, it outlines the countours of bodies, space, time and sound as events within events within events
A mask between you and me
How do we evaluate the value of a medical mask? And how does the mask acquire its meanings? In this paper, I approach the mask as a media entity: a mediated and mediating thing whose meanings and values arise from within a complex network of relations. The recent political divide regarding mask-wearing has roots in the ambivalence and confusion about their efficacy in the first few months of the pandemic. It remained unclear for some time whether…
Animal, Body, Data
The aim of this article is to demonstrate that data modelling is becoming a crucial, if not dominant, vector for our understanding of animal populations and is consequential for how we study the affective relations between individual bodies and the communities to which they belong. It takes up the relationship between animal, body and data, following the datafication of starling murmurations, to explore the topological relationships between natur…
This Is My Voice in a Mask
Our bodies have become attuned to a new regime of sensory experiences that now mediate our participation in the public sphere. This commentary is about the day I started to quarantine my voice and to wear a mask. In it, I explore the mask as a media object, and as a border between the body and the commons, including the ethics of communicable transmission. It marks some provisional thoughts in the context of a broader project on mask cultures
Doing nothing does something
The COVID-19 pandemic redefines how we think about the body, physiologically and socially. But what does it mean to have and to be a body in the COVID-19 pandemic? The COVID-19 pandemic offers data scholars the unique opportunity, and perhaps obligation, to revisit and reinvent the fundamental concepts of our mediated experiences. The article critiques the data double, a longstanding concept in critical data and media studies, as incompatible wit…
Biometrics, affect, autoaffection and the phenomenological voice
Falling in Place
Grounded in a case study of the Frank Slide, Canada’s Deadliest Rockslide, this article introduces a new perspective on disaster sites as socio-cultural entities by way of correlating the specific technicality of scientific research and management of disaster sites with a broader conceptual framework from within the social sciences and spatial theories. Heritage sites such as the Frank Slide are often understood as protected places that benefit t…
The Science of Listening in Bioacoustics Research
Bioacoustics is an interdisciplinary field bridging biological and acoustic sciences, which uses sound technologies to record, preserve, and analyse large datasets of animal communications. But it is also a world, made of the meanings created through inter- and intra-species communication. This article empirically explores a variety of bioacoustics research, including interviews with researchers, as part of a broader qualitative study, in order t…
Possibility, Performance, Politics
Based in his theory of superego internalization, which punishes the subject for failing to accomplish impossible tasks, the voice became both the medium and the idea for Sigmund Freud’s notorious ‘
Technology, Embodiment, and Affect in Voice Sciences
This article is interested in 'voice imaging' as a technical field through which people experience new relations between organic and inorganic forms of life. Grounded in a study of voice imaging in historical and contemporary scientific research, the article applies and expands on Bernard Stiegler's 'General Organology', with an eye to understanding the voice as a dynamic capacity for volition. By exploring the scientific research into voice imag…
Giving account of the voice-of-encounter
This article proposes a new sociological conception of voice as a voice-of-encounter and is grounded in anecdotes from the 2011 Occupy movement. Voice has occupied a place in sociological analysis insofar as it designates a space for collective representation, a capacity for collective resistance, and a strategy for collective action. But this article argues for the adoption of a new sociological conception of voice by theorizing a voice-of-encou…
The Rhythm of Echoes and Echoes of Violence
This paper contributes to non-ocularcentric theory and theorizing by way of a methodological application and extension of Henri Lefebvre's Rhythmanalysis. It explores the cultural dynamics of echoes and history, using as an instrumental case study Steve Reich's 1966 tape-loop composition, Come Out, to elucidate the ambivalent and contradictory relations of time, temporality, and possibility. While the focus is primarily on the text of Come Out an…
The Take and the Stutter
In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari refer to Glenn Gould as an illustration of the third principle of the rhizome, that of multiplicity: ‘When Glenn Gould speeds up the performance of a piece, he is not just displaying virtuosity, he is transforming the musical points into lines, he is making the whole piece proliferate’ (1987: 8). In an attempt to make sensible their ostensibly modest statement, I proliferate the relationships between G…
Truth Commission Discourse and the Aesthetics of Reconciliation
Truth Commissions have come to be regarded as a turning point for post-conflict and post-authoritarian states in transition. In this article, I argue that truth commission testimony, broadly defined to include artistic, cultural, and media productions, must be experienced as forms of affective materiality over discursive inscription. Using as an instrumental case study the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2008–2015), I conceptualize…
Hearing Voice
Rock and roll
Blues rock (USA)
Say Rawr
Jean-François Lyotard argued repeatedly that the biggest challenge a musician or composer faces is emancipating sound from the tyranny of grand narratives. They labor not in the service of expression but in the exploration of radical methods that constitute what Lyotard terms the “musical act”: a supervening decomposition of subjectivity through a sonic fold in space-time-sound. Thus composers work through and against musical customs to render au…
The Media Contingencies of Generation Mashup
When the binary mashup was mainstreamed by way of DJ Danger Mouse's The Grey Album, media scholars celebrated the emerging genre as an exemplary case of digital emancipation because it eluded copyright law and the ownership system through the collusion of unlikely historical texts freely distributed online. I hesitate to celebrate the mashup in the same tone, if, for one reason, the mashup perpetuates the very philosophy of professional dissemina…
Flat Disc Phonographs and the Injunction of the Second Master
This article examines the mechanical phonograph from its invention as a business aid to its incorporation into the domestic space. While its insertion into the latter was certainly dependent on technical improvements, it was equally dependent upon soliciting the very fantasy space of the phonograph as an autonomous object capable of speaking on behalf of the individual. A central strategy to soliciting the domestic phonograph was to gradually rem…
The Science of Listening in Bioacoustics Research
Bioacoustics is an interdisciplinary field bridging biological and acoustic sciences, which uses sound technologies to record, preserve, and analyse large datasets of animal communications. But it is also a world, made of the meanings created through inter- and intra-species communication. This article empirically explores a variety of bioacoustics research, including interviews with researchers, as part of a broader qualitative study, in order t…
Do we need a posthumanist sociology? Notes from the Covid-19 pandemic
This article asks whether we need a posthumanist sociology, arguing that such a perspective can export a good deal of useful methodological and theoretical insight into the sociological toolbox. A posthumanist sociology is not a flattened ontology, in which we find agency in all things living and non-living. A posthumanist sociology asks instead what we do with the fundamental question of becoming both more and less human, following a surge of in…
Doing nothing does something
The COVID-19 pandemic redefines how we think about the body, physiologically and socially. But what does it mean to have and to be a body in the COVID-19 pandemic? The COVID-19 pandemic offers data scholars the unique opportunity, and perhaps obligation, to revisit and reinvent the fundamental concepts of our mediated experiences. The article critiques the data double, a longstanding concept in critical data and media studies, as incompatible wit…
Possibility, Performance, Politics
Based in his theory of superego internalization, which punishes the subject for failing to accomplish impossible tasks, the voice became both the medium and the idea for Sigmund Freud’s notorious ‘
Technology, Embodiment, and Affect in Voice Sciences
This article is interested in 'voice imaging' as a technical field through which people experience new relations between organic and inorganic forms of life. Grounded in a study of voice imaging in historical and contemporary scientific research, the article applies and expands on Bernard Stiegler's 'General Organology', with an eye to understanding the voice as a dynamic capacity for volition. By exploring the scientific research into voice imag…
The Rhythm of Echoes and Echoes of Violence
This paper contributes to non-ocularcentric theory and theorizing by way of a methodological application and extension of Henri Lefebvre's Rhythmanalysis. It explores the cultural dynamics of echoes and history, using as an instrumental case study Steve Reich's 1966 tape-loop composition, Come Out, to elucidate the ambivalent and contradictory relations of time, temporality, and possibility. While the focus is primarily on the text of Come Out an…
Giving account of the voice-of-encounter
This article proposes a new sociological conception of voice as a voice-of-encounter and is grounded in anecdotes from the 2011 Occupy movement. Voice has occupied a place in sociological analysis insofar as it designates a space for collective representation, a capacity for collective resistance, and a strategy for collective action. But this article argues for the adoption of a new sociological conception of voice by theorizing a voice-of-encou…
Grid of nows
This paper uses a collaborate sound and web design project as a beginning point for theorising sound recording and the problem of time. Inspired by the home soundscapes of COVID-19 lockdowns, the project asked volunteer recordists to record themselves preparing tea. The purpose of the project was to engage with a ritual in a way that elucidated its duration, as a means of resisting the quantification of time that dominated much of what life and b…
A mask between you and me
How do we evaluate the value of a medical mask? And how does the mask acquire its meanings? In this paper, I approach the mask as a media entity: a mediated and mediating thing whose meanings and values arise from within a complex network of relations. The recent political divide regarding mask-wearing has roots in the ambivalence and confusion about their efficacy in the first few months of the pandemic. It remained unclear for some time whether…
This Is My Voice in a Mask
Our bodies have become attuned to a new regime of sensory experiences that now mediate our participation in the public sphere. This commentary is about the day I started to quarantine my voice and to wear a mask. In it, I explore the mask as a media object, and as a border between the body and the commons, including the ethics of communicable transmission. It marks some provisional thoughts in the context of a broader project on mask cultures
Falling in Place
Grounded in a case study of the Frank Slide, Canada’s Deadliest Rockslide, this article introduces a new perspective on disaster sites as socio-cultural entities by way of correlating the specific technicality of scientific research and management of disaster sites with a broader conceptual framework from within the social sciences and spatial theories. Heritage sites such as the Frank Slide are often understood as protected places that benefit t…
Truth Commission Discourse and the Aesthetics of Reconciliation
Truth Commissions have come to be regarded as a turning point for post-conflict and post-authoritarian states in transition. In this article, I argue that truth commission testimony, broadly defined to include artistic, cultural, and media productions, must be experienced as forms of affective materiality over discursive inscription. Using as an instrumental case study the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2008–2015), I conceptualize…
Hearing Voice
Flat Disc Phonographs and the Injunction of the Second Master
This article examines the mechanical phonograph from its invention as a business aid to its incorporation into the domestic space. While its insertion into the latter was certainly dependent on technical improvements, it was equally dependent upon soliciting the very fantasy space of the phonograph as an autonomous object capable of speaking on behalf of the individual. A central strategy to soliciting the domestic phonograph was to gradually rem…
The Media Contingencies of Generation Mashup
When the binary mashup was mainstreamed by way of DJ Danger Mouse's The Grey Album, media scholars celebrated the emerging genre as an exemplary case of digital emancipation because it eluded copyright law and the ownership system through the collusion of unlikely historical texts freely distributed online. I hesitate to celebrate the mashup in the same tone, if, for one reason, the mashup perpetuates the very philosophy of professional dissemina…
Blues rock (USA)
Say Rawr
Jean-François Lyotard argued repeatedly that the biggest challenge a musician or composer faces is emancipating sound from the tyranny of grand narratives. They labor not in the service of expression but in the exploration of radical methods that constitute what Lyotard terms the “musical act”: a supervening decomposition of subjectivity through a sonic fold in space-time-sound. Thus composers work through and against musical customs to render au…
Rock and roll
The Take and the Stutter
In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari refer to Glenn Gould as an illustration of the third principle of the rhizome, that of multiplicity: ‘When Glenn Gould speeds up the performance of a piece, he is not just displaying virtuosity, he is transforming the musical points into lines, he is making the whole piece proliferate’ (1987: 8). In an attempt to make sensible their ostensibly modest statement, I proliferate the relationships between G…
Truth Commission Discourse and the Aesthetics of Reconciliation
Truth Commissions have come to be regarded as a turning point for post-conflict and post-authoritarian states in transition. In this article, I argue that truth commission testimony, broadly defined to include artistic, cultural, and media productions, must be experienced as forms of affective materiality over discursive inscription. Using as an instrumental case study the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2008–2015), I conceptualize…
Hearing Voice
Possibility, Performance, Politics
Based in his theory of superego internalization, which punishes the subject for failing to accomplish impossible tasks, the voice became both the medium and the idea for Sigmund Freud’s notorious ‘
Technology, Embodiment, and Affect in Voice Sciences
This article is interested in 'voice imaging' as a technical field through which people experience new relations between organic and inorganic forms of life. Grounded in a study of voice imaging in historical and contemporary scientific research, the article applies and expands on Bernard Stiegler's 'General Organology', with an eye to understanding the voice as a dynamic capacity for volition. By exploring the scientific research into voice imag…
Giving account of the voice-of-encounter
This article proposes a new sociological conception of voice as a voice-of-encounter and is grounded in anecdotes from the 2011 Occupy movement. Voice has occupied a place in sociological analysis insofar as it designates a space for collective representation, a capacity for collective resistance, and a strategy for collective action. But this article argues for the adoption of a new sociological conception of voice by theorizing a voice-of-encou…
The Rhythm of Echoes and Echoes of Violence
This paper contributes to non-ocularcentric theory and theorizing by way of a methodological application and extension of Henri Lefebvre's Rhythmanalysis. It explores the cultural dynamics of echoes and history, using as an instrumental case study Steve Reich's 1966 tape-loop composition, Come Out, to elucidate the ambivalent and contradictory relations of time, temporality, and possibility. While the focus is primarily on the text of Come Out an…
Biometrics, affect, autoaffection and the phenomenological voice
Falling in Place
Grounded in a case study of the Frank Slide, Canada’s Deadliest Rockslide, this article introduces a new perspective on disaster sites as socio-cultural entities by way of correlating the specific technicality of scientific research and management of disaster sites with a broader conceptual framework from within the social sciences and spatial theories. Heritage sites such as the Frank Slide are often understood as protected places that benefit t…
The Science of Listening in Bioacoustics Research
Bioacoustics is an interdisciplinary field bridging biological and acoustic sciences, which uses sound technologies to record, preserve, and analyse large datasets of animal communications. But it is also a world, made of the meanings created through inter- and intra-species communication. This article empirically explores a variety of bioacoustics research, including interviews with researchers, as part of a broader qualitative study, in order t…
This Is My Voice in a Mask
Our bodies have become attuned to a new regime of sensory experiences that now mediate our participation in the public sphere. This commentary is about the day I started to quarantine my voice and to wear a mask. In it, I explore the mask as a media object, and as a border between the body and the commons, including the ethics of communicable transmission. It marks some provisional thoughts in the context of a broader project on mask cultures
Doing nothing does something
The COVID-19 pandemic redefines how we think about the body, physiologically and socially. But what does it mean to have and to be a body in the COVID-19 pandemic? The COVID-19 pandemic offers data scholars the unique opportunity, and perhaps obligation, to revisit and reinvent the fundamental concepts of our mediated experiences. The article critiques the data double, a longstanding concept in critical data and media studies, as incompatible wit…
Animal, Body, Data
The aim of this article is to demonstrate that data modelling is becoming a crucial, if not dominant, vector for our understanding of animal populations and is consequential for how we study the affective relations between individual bodies and the communities to which they belong. It takes up the relationship between animal, body and data, following the datafication of starling murmurations, to explore the topological relationships between natur…
Incorporeal transformations in truth and reconciliation
Resonant Ecologies
This short reflection piece weaves a process of continuous becoming between seemingly disparate events: drums, spiders, accordions, dancers, fishers. It serves as an entry into Alfred North Whitehead's metaphysics, while elucidating the process of creativity that binds the temporal flux of events. In search of a resonant ecology, it outlines the countours of bodies, space, time and sound as events within events within events
A mask between you and me
How do we evaluate the value of a medical mask? And how does the mask acquire its meanings? In this paper, I approach the mask as a media entity: a mediated and mediating thing whose meanings and values arise from within a complex network of relations. The recent political divide regarding mask-wearing has roots in the ambivalence and confusion about their efficacy in the first few months of the pandemic. It remained unclear for some time whether…
Listening Beyond the Human
Sound technologies and sound sensor networks play a crucial role in our understanding of biodiversity loss in conservation biology and the environmental sciences. Among these technologies, the autonomous recording unit (ARU) has been widely used for studying longitudinal biodiversity loss. This article draws on fieldwork conducted in 2016 and 2017 at a bioacoustics research laboratory to explore the significance of the ARU, developed by Wildlife …
Grid of nows
This paper uses a collaborate sound and web design project as a beginning point for theorising sound recording and the problem of time. Inspired by the home soundscapes of COVID-19 lockdowns, the project asked volunteer recordists to record themselves preparing tea. The purpose of the project was to engage with a ritual in a way that elucidated its duration, as a means of resisting the quantification of time that dominated much of what life and b…
Do we need a posthumanist sociology? Notes from the Covid-19 pandemic
This article asks whether we need a posthumanist sociology, arguing that such a perspective can export a good deal of useful methodological and theoretical insight into the sociological toolbox. A posthumanist sociology is not a flattened ontology, in which we find agency in all things living and non-living. A posthumanist sociology asks instead what we do with the fundamental question of becoming both more and less human, following a surge of in…
Does the Voice Have a Body? Esposito’s Vox Munus in an Age of Synthetic Voice
This article examines the relationship between voice, embodiment, and community by extending Roberto Esposito’s concepts of munus , communitas , and immunitas to the domain of voice. While voice is often treated as a bodily capacity and marker of individual authenticity, contemporary voice technologies, including brain/computer interfaces, AI-generated voices, and deepfake audio, destabilise this assumption. The article proposes Vox Munus as a co…
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