Joshua St. Pierre, "Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication" (U MIchigan Press, 2022)
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The Role of Speech Language Pathology in the Fantasy Economy
Dr. Sampier argues that speech language pathology is an industry of the, the means of production as in a fantasy economy. Study to understand speech and how it works are more and more into bit level to try and optimize speaking patterns across the whole social body. We are filtering of unwanted and dangerous noise from the medium of communication by relying on the politicalization of both noise and disability which render communication inert.
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