Listening to Terrestrial Voices in Ted Chiang’s “The Great Silence”
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Ted Chiang’s short story, “The Great Silence”, takes the perspective of a parrot living in Rio Abajo forest Puerto Rico, sharing its habitat with Arecibo Observatory. The story first appeared as textual component video installation by Allora and Calzadilla, piece that emphasizes entanglement massive structure telescope). parrot-narrator wonders why humans demonstrate such commitment to possibility interstellar communication while often ignoring voices interests our terrestrial cohabitants. parrot’s critically endangered species, Rican parrot, once filled forests island, narrator presents his/her narrative sort final plea humans, asking us consider speech nonhumans whom we live. Bruno Latour’s notion “the terrestrial” provides useful framework for approaching narrative, specifically terms demand come “down earth”, engaging politics human nonhuman agents who all have something at stake. asks turn more attention concerns, order communicate those are already speaking us.
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عنوان ژورنال: Literature
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2410-9789']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/literature2020007