02594cam a2200529 4500 2720158868 TxAuBib 20260401120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780472220144 0472220144 319c7be9-2e25-4f4b-912f-0726cfac2585 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9829028 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib St. Pierre, Joshua. Cheap Talk [Libby eBook] : Disability and the Politics of Communication. University of Michigan Press, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Critical Disability Studies. speech-language pathology. communication disability. Information society. political theory. neoliberalism. communication. talking heads. Social Media. disability. stuttering. dysfluency. Parrhesia. Foucault. fluency. therapy. Deleuze. speech. trolls. cynics. noise. HTML:In <i>Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication</i>, Joshua St. Pierre flips the script on communication disability, positioning the unruly, disabled speaker at the center of analysis to challenge the belief that more communication is unquestionably good. Working with Gilles Deleuze's suggestion that "[w]e don't suffer these days from any lack of communication, but rather from all the forces making us say things when we've nothing much to say," St. Pierre brings together the unlikely trio of the dysfluent speaker, the talking head, and the troll to show how speech is made cheap—and produced and repaired within human bodies—to meet the inhuman needs of capital. The book explores how technologies, like social media and the field of speech-language pathology, create smooth sites of contact that are exclusionary for disabled speakers and looks to the political possibilities of disabled voices to "de-face" the power of speech now entwined with capital. Media Studies. Nonfiction. Sociology. Politics. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-03-31 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=319c7be9-2e25-4f4b-912f-0726cfac2585&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)