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Subject(s)

• Communicative disorders [Browse]
• Stuttering [Browse]
• Speech therapy [Browse]
• Communication in politics [Browse]
• Communication—Political aspects [Browse]
• Disability culture [Browse]

Publisher

• Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan) [Browse]

Series

• Corporealities [More in this series]
• Corporealities: discourses of disability

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other title(s)

Disability and the politics of communication

ISBN

• 9780472075348 (hardcover)
• 0472075349 (hardcover)
• 9780472055340 (paperback)
• 0472055348 (paperback)

LCCN

2021054484

OCLC

1258782249

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