Amalle Dublon’s piece takes up extensity — the drawing out of certain sounds in verbal speech — as a phonic gesture that exceeds the temporal (and we might argue productive) regulations of merely representative, coded speech. In doing so, extensity creates what Dublon describes as “a kind of anticipatory penumbra that halos and holds the unstable coordination of mutual respondents.” Here, Dublon’s work seemingly provides an entry point into imagining queer community-formation as a project made possible by phonic excess.
Articles by Amalle Dublon
\Amalle Dublon is a doctoral candidate at the Program in Literature at Duke University. Her work deals with sound, sexual difference, reproductivity, and time. She teaches in Women\'s Studies and in Film and Media Arts at Temple University, and serves on the editorial collective of Women and Performance, a journal of feminist theory. She was a 2010-2011 Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program.\