Cheap Talk - Disability and the Politics of Communication (Paperback)

In Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication, Joshua St. Pierre flips the script on communication disability, positioning the unruly, disabled speaker at the center of analysis to challenge the belief that more communication is unquestionably good. Working with Gilles Deleuze's suggestion that "[w]e don't suffer these days from any lack of communication, but rather from all the forces making us say things when we've nothing much to say," St. Pierre brings together the unlikely trio of the dysfluent speaker, the talking head, and the troll to show how speech is made cheap-and produced and repaired within human bodies-to meet the inhuman needs of capital. The book explores how technologies, like social media and the field of speech-language pathology, create smooth sites of contact that are exclusionary for disabled speakers and looks to the political possibilities of disabled voices to "de-face" the power of speech now entwined with capital.

General

Imprint:	The University of Michigan Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
Release date:	May 2022
Authors:	Joshua St. Pierre
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	180
ISBN-13:	978-0-472-05534-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Disability: social aspects Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General Promotions
LSN:	0-472-05534-8
Barcode:	9780472055340

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