The Disarticulate Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity
Language is integral to our social being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language? The mentally disabled, “wild” children, people with autism and other neurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificial intelligences, have all engaged with language from...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press
[2014]
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Cultural Front
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009817327806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Disarticulate and disarticulate
- 1. The bearing across of language: care, catachresis, and political failure
- 2. Linguistic impairment and the default of modernism: totality and otherness: dys-/disarticulate modernity
- 3. Post-modern wild children, falling towers, and the counter-linguistic turn
- 4. Dys-/disarticulation and disability
- 5. Alterity is relative: impairment, narrative, and care in an age of neuroscience
- Epilogue: “language in dissolution” and “a world without words”
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index
- About the author
