Recently I've become interested in the act of reading aloud - as performance, as collective experiment and as a political act. Reading aloud, outside of a context designed for performative action, can be seen as academically immature. Indeed, children learn to read aloud, and then are taught to let the internal voice take over, to grow into discreet, private readers. I find this transition from audible reading to silent reading particularly significant, as it's a shift that i