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This essay reflects on Michael Eng’s book, The Scene of the Voice: Thinking Language After Affect (2023). The first part of the essay clarifies Eng’s use of Heidegger to articulate what is meant by the “scene of the voice” in its relation to the “affective turn” in recent critical thought. The second part of the essay clarifies the stakes of Eng’s book in the post-Heideggerian French philosophy Eng discusses, with a particular focus on his use of Blanchot. The essay asks critical questions about the problem of difference, with a focus on the feminine, the “other of the other,” as articulated by Luce Irigaray in Speculum of the Other Woman and Anne Carson in “The Gender of Sound.”

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Notes

  1. In Eng (2023, p. 180).

  2. Eng (2023, p. 180, emphasis added).

  3. Eng (2023, p. 180).

  4. Eng (2023, p. 180, original emphasis).

  5. Cited in Eng (2023, p. 180).

  6. In Eng (2023, p. 179, original emphasis).

  7. Eng (2023, p. 179).

  8. Eng (2023, p. 180).

  9. In Eng (2023, p. 179).

  10. Eng (2023, p. 51).

  11. Eng (2023, p. 2).

  12. Eng (2023, p. 25).

  13. Eng (2023, p. 15).

  14. Eng (2023, p. 15).

  15. Eng (2023, p. 33).

  16. Eng (2023, p. 33).

  17. Eng (2023, p. 61).

  18. Eng (2023, p. 61).

  19. Eng (2023, p. 31).

  20. Eng (2023, p. 19).

  21. Eng (2023, p. 4).

  22. Eng (2023, p. 5).

  23. Eng (2023, p. 41).

  24. Eng (2023, p. 42).

  25. Eng (2023, p. 44).

  26. Eng (2023, p. 43).

  27. Eng (2023, p. 38).

  28. In Eng (2023, p. 184).

  29. In Eng (2023, p. 184).

  30. In Eng (2023, p. 184).

  31. In Eng (2023, p. 218).

  32. Foucault (2006, p. xxxii).

  33. Eng (2023, p. 223).

  34. Eng (2023, p. 171).

  35. In Eng (2023, p. 148).

  36. Eng (2023, p. 252, n33); Irigaray (1985).

  37. Hodge (1994).

  38. Eng (2023, p. 62, original emphasis).

  39. Foucault (2006, p. 547).

  40. Eng (2023, p. 62, emphasis added).

  41. Carson (1995, p. 123).

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Huffer, L. Howl-Breath. Cont Philos Rev (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-026-09750-5

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