Fugitive Sensing with Michele Friedner
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Eleanor Drage interviews Michele Friedner about the implications of treating hearing as an economic duty and the labor involved in maintaining assistive devices.
What happens when we treat hearing as an economic duty, and global tech corporations turn assistive devices into a lifetime commitment? In this episode of The Good Robot, Eleanor Drage sits down with medical anthropologist Michele Friedner (University of Chicago) to discuss her groundbreaking book, Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India. Together, they dismantle the normative project of "normalization" and expose the immense, hidden labor required to keep assi...
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