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 Role of the Talking Head in Info-Capitolism
The talking head is, I mean, it's kind of a cheeky term that I came up with to describe a more than what it typically denotes. And they also have become a kind of entity in their own right within info-capitolism. In other instances, unlike we think of like Twitch or YouTube, tubes, tubes, streamers, where their existence on line is as a talking head. Their role isn't to inform as an expert, as much as it is to entertain, I guess, in a sense, right?
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