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Author St. Pierre, Joshua, 1984- author.

Title Cheap talk : disability and the politics of communication / Joshua St. Pierre
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2022]
©2022

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Description 1 online resource (x, 167 pages)
Series Corporealities: discourses of disability
Corporealities.
Contents Introduction: Stuttering, trolls, and talking heads -- Putting fluency to work -- Controlling communication -- Becoming talking heads -- Stuttering parrhesia -- Coda. Rehabilitation
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 07, 2022)
Subject Communicative disorders.
Stuttering.
Speech therapy.
Communication in politics.
Communication -- Political aspects.
Disability culture.
Communication Disorders
Stuttering
Speech Therapy
SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet.
Disability culture
Communication in politics
Communication -- Political aspects
Communicative disorders
Speech therapy
Stuttering
Form Electronic book
Author Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
LC no. 2021054485
ISBN 9780472220144
0472220144
Other Titles Disability and the politics of communication