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oa Ballad of the dork-o-phone: Towards a crip vocal technoscience
- Source: Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, Volume 4, Issue 2, Oct 2019, p. 179 - 189
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- 01 Oct 2019
Abstract
Abstract
This piece elucidates the related politics of vocal impairment and vocal prosthesis through a close analysis of the Spokeman Personal Voice Amplifier, a.k.a., the dork-o-phone. Drawing from voice theory, disability studies and phenomenology, I present an analysis of the dork-o-phone in use and challenge the boundaries between disability and impairment. In the process, I also show how vocal impairments and protheses ultimately give the lie to the idea that voices are self-sufficient and can exist without supplementation.
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