Kinematographische Agenturen

Engell, Lorenz

doi:10.24894/stph-de.2010.69011

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“…The film scenes should hence not to be seen as the representation of a (autonomously existing) first-timehearing event. Relations, perceptions, or reflections that arise from the interaction of the different actors in this space solidify into images, texts, or practices [27,136]. Therefore, rather than analyzing the behavior of hearing, deaf, hard of hearing, or CI-hearing people, we focus on the mediality of the participatory space and the (re-)production of concepts of normalhuman hearing or non-hearing.…”

Section: Rehumanizing: the Staging Of First-time-activation Videosmentioning

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“…BBC Two (02 February 2013), http://www.bbc.co.uk/ programmes/p014jy3z, accessed 22 June 2015. 16 Joanne Milnes' very emotional viral cochlear implant switch on, http://limpingchicken.com/2014/03/28/watch joanne milnes very emotional viral cochlear implant switch on video/, 28 March 2014 to 27 May 2014. 17 B[…] moments after switch on takes place, she can understand the days of the week being read to her, knows she is speaking with a Geordie accent and tells the audiologist that the sounds seem Btoo high^… Hang on, wait… BGeordie accent?…”

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“…22 In doing so, the system also imposes a normalization of technologically induced hearing by favoring certain modes of auditory perception while excluding others. Although knowing that the programming and individual adjustment of the implant system is a delicate issue, Park insists that as the owner of his implant he wants the liberty to decide its programming [53,[27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. He argues against normalization even if he knows about the implicated risks, e.g., that hacking the implant could overexcite or injure his auditory nerve [93].…”

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The paper focuses on processes of normalization through which dis/ability is simultaneously produced in specific collectives, networks, and socio-technological systems that enable the construction of such demarcations. Our point of departure is the cochlear implant (CI), a neuroprosthetic device intended to replace and/or augment the function of the damaged inner ear. Unlike hearing aids, which amplify sounds, the CI does the work of damaged hair cells in the inner ear by providing sound signals to the brain. We examine the processes of the CI's genesis as well as its specific uses by and interrelations to the different and divergent actors that the CI assembles. We argue that the technological device and the implicated normalization process mobilize complex effects in varying socio-technical arrangements. The CI is conceived as a Bboundary object^[89] or a Bquasi-object^[49, 83], i.e., a metastabilized medium of translation that coordinates social, cultural, and technological (inter)action. Although intended to transform non-hearing or hard of hearing people into competent and Bnormal^hearing subjects, the CI system reproduces the asymmetrical structures of the disability discourse [14] through its function of Bdeveloping and maintaining coherence between intersecting social worlds^ [89, 393]. Additionally, it initiates controversial discourses that have resulted in new forms of biosocial collectivities ranging from cochlear implantees with (restored) normal human hearing to (trans)human configurations who have passed through (post)human enhancement. Our approach is thus situated at the intersection of disability and media studies and tackles the particular conditions technological media configurations impose upon the (re-)production of dis/ability.

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Kinematographische Agenturen

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