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Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment

Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment

Sterne, Jonathan

Hardcover

General SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 147801508X
ISBN13: 9781478015086
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 31 2022
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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