Jonathan Sterne: Diminished Faculties

Cover: 9781478017707 | Diminished Faculties | A Political Phenomenology of Impairment | Buch

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In Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his personal history with thyroid cancer and a paralyzed vocal cord, Sterne undertakes a political phenomenology of impairment in which experience is understood from the standpoint of a subject that is not fully able to account for itself. He conceives of impairment as a fundamental dimension of human experience, examining it as both political and physical. While some impairments are enshrined as normal in international standards, others are treated as causes or effects of illness or disability. Alongside his fractured account of experience, Sterne provides a tour of alternative vocal technologies and practices; a study of "normal" hearing loss as a cultural practice rather than a medical problem; and an intertwined history and phenomenology of fatigue that follows the concept as it careens from people to materials science to industrial management to spoons. Sterne demonstrates how impairment is a problem, opportunity, and occasion for approaching larger questions about disability, subjectivity, power, technology, and experience in new ways. Diminished Faculties ends with a practical user's guide to impairment theory.

Über den Autor

Jonathan Sterne is James McGill Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, and author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format and The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction, both also published by Duke University Press, and is editor of The Sound Studies Reader. He also makes music and other audio works. Visit his website at [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Degrees of Muteness 1
2. Meet the Dork-o-Phone 41
3. In Search of New Vocalities: An Imaginary Exhibition 69
4. Audile Scarification: On Normal Impairments 117
5. There Are Never Enough Spoons 157
Impairment Theory: A User's Guide 193
Credits 209
Notes 217
Bibliography 249
Index 281

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	20. & 21. Jahrhundert
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781478017707
ISBN-10:	1478017708
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Sterne, Jonathan
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Maße:	229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Jonathan Sterne
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.01.2022
Gewicht:	0,441 kg

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