Description
Book SynopsisFlips the script on communication disability, positioning the unruly, disabled speaker at the centre of analysis to challenge the belief that more communication is unquestionably good. Joshua St Pierre brings together the dysfluent speaker, the talking head, and the troll to show how speech is made cheap to meet the inhuman needs of capital.
Trade Review“St. Pierre has produced a work that is philosophically and theoretically rich while remaining accessible to a wide range of readers. The book’s careful attention to non-normative modes of communication and exchange works to push past the boundaries of liberal humanist understandings of intelligibility and inclusion towards radically new spaces of political belonging.”— Anne McGuire, University of Toronto
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction. Stuttering, Trolls, and Talking Heads
- One. Putting Fluency to Work
- Two. Controlling Communication
- Three. Becoming Talking Heads
- Four. Stuttering Parrhesia
- Coda. Rehabilitation
- Bibliography
- Index
