Joshua St. Pierre, "Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication" (U MIchigan Press, 2022)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Politics of Talking Heads and Trolls
I think that there's a way in which the talking head and the troll are two sides of the same coin of political action. Talking heads and trolls is what it is what we get when we have reduced communication to its, to its amnial liberal form of human capital. When we reduce speech, I'm not just a human capital, but to the logic of capital itself. It turns out that the kind of action it inspires is also very transactional as well.
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