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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual book launch for Jonathan Sterne’s Diminis
 hed Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment. The launch will op
 en with a brief introduction by Jonathan\, a discussion with Michele Fried
 ner\, and conclude with a virtual toast (BYO\, sorry!) and an open Q&A per
 iod. CART captioning in English will be provided.\n\nRegistration: https:/
 /www.eventbrite.ca/e/317176021017\n\n“In Diminished Faculties Jonathan Ste
 rne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawi
 ng on his personal history with thyroid cancer and a paralyzed vocal cord\
 , Sterne undertakes a political phenomenology of impairment in which exper
 ience is understood from the standpoint of a subject that is not fully abl
 e to account for itself. He conceives of impairment as a fundamental dimen
 sion of human experience\, examining it as both political and physical. Wh
 ile some impairments are enshrined as normal in international standards\, 
 others are treated as causes or effects of illness or disability. Alongsid
 e his fractured account of experience\, Sterne provides a tour of alternat
 ive vocal technologies and practices\; a study of “normal” hearing loss as
  a cultural practice rather than a medical problem\; and an intertwined hi
 story and phenomenology of fatigue that follows the concept as it careens 
 from people to materials science to industrial management to spoons. Stern
 e demonstrates how impairment is a problem\, opportunity\, and occasion fo
 r approaching larger questions about disability\, subjectivity\, power\, t
 echnology\, and experience in new ways. Diminished Faculties ends with a p
 ractical user’s guide to impairment theory.” – Duke University Press\n\nLe
 arn more about Diminished Faculties at the Duke University Press website. 
 Use coupon code E21STERN to save 30% on the paperback when you order from 
 dukeupress.edu.\n\nJonathan Sterne teaches in the Department of Art Histor
 y and Communication Studies at ������. He is author of Diminish
 ed Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment (Duke\, 2021)\; MP3:
  The Meaning of a Format (Duke 2012)\, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins 
 of Sound Reproduction (Duke\, 2003)\; and numerous articles on media\, tec
 hnologies and the politics of culture. He currently working on a project a
 bout artificial intelligence and the politics of culture. And with co-auth
 or Mara Mills\, he is writing Tuning Time: Histories of Sound and Speed. V
 isit his website at http://sterneworks.org.\n\nMichele Friedner is an asso
 ciate professor in the department of Comparative Human Development at the 
 University of Chicago. Her research explores deaf and disabled experiences
  in India and her forthcoming book Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear 
 Implant Infrastructures in India analyzes the ways that cochlear implants\
 , as normalizing technologies\, result in the constriction of sensory\, mo
 dal\, and relational possibilities for deaf children and those with whom t
 hey interact.\n
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch for Jonathan Sterne’s Diminished Faculties: A P
 olitical Phenomenology of Impairment
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