Jacques Derrida, we shouldn’t forget, again and again gives words to those whose voices are absent: the dead, the other self, the animal other. The papers in this panel speak of the ventriloquisms by which the (absent, lost, or otherwise silent) speaker is heard, and of the various (organic, spectral, machinic, or textual) forms through which these voices are (dis)embodied. This discussion on thrown voices involves questions of distance, transmission, repetition, and amplification, and lands somewhere in the middle distance, on its side. Here, also, there is the question of mourning, forgetting, desire, the face, and all those other ghostly things which make more present that which is more absent, and even that which seems impossibly absent, alien, or dead.