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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 lan...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Berger, James, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2014.
Series:Cultural front (Series)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Bearing Across of Language: Care, Catachresis, and Political Failure
  • Linguistic Impairment and the Default of Modernism: Totality and Otherness: Dys-/Disarticulate Modernity
  • Post-Modern Wild Children, Falling Towers, and the Counter-Linguistic Turn
  • Dys-/Disarticulation and Disability
  • Alterity Is Relative: Impairment, Narrative, and Care in an Age of Neuroscience.