Diminished Faculties

In this intimate critical phenomenology, Jonathan Sterne shows us that the agential subject of disability studies is interpretive, nonstandard, somewhat unreliable, and nevertheless political. Diminished Faculties is at once an account of the lived experience of impairment and an inventory of what it can engender. Crip humor, technological hacks, imaginary archives, and material metaphors form the myriad registers of Sterne's authorial voice. -- Aimi Hamraie, author of * Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability * Offering a compelling account of the phenomenology of impairment, this fascinating, brilliant, and witty book will take disability studies in at least three new directions. -- Michael Berube, author of * The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read * With its capacious, unpressured mode of being, theorizing, and storytelling, this profound book teaches us how to think and how to be. -- Kathleen Stewart, coauthor of * The Hundreds * Diminished Faculties is a lyric, genre-bending book, that is forcefully argued, rendered beautifully, and will open the path for further research. It is deeply generous both to reader and future scholar, as Sterne's work always is. But additionally, this is a book that so many have needed, and need now, a way of situating the present emergency in a much longer, political history. -- Hannah Zeavin * boundary 2 *