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Tuesday, January
31st
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Bionic Ears:
Cochlear Implants and the Future of Assistive Technology
Lindsey Dolich Felt, PhD
Stanford University - Program in Writing and
Rhetoric |
Abstract: "In this talk, I will
share my personal experience as a user with cochlear implants, and discuss the
history and future of this device's development. Introducing historian of
science and technology Mara Mills' term "bionic rhetoric," I will explain how
the cochlear implant negotiates two different strains of thinking in assistive
technology design: normalization and enhancement. My talk will conclude with a
discussion of how this rhetoric gets metabolized in literary and popular
discourse, and how these narratives illuminate how people with disabilities use
- and even hack - their assistive technologies."
Biosketch: Lindsey Dolich
Felt is a lecturer in the
Program in Writing and
Rhetoric at Stanford University. She received her PhD in English from
Stanford University in 2016, and holds a BA from Haverford College. Before
coming to Stanford, she worked as a journalist for ESPN the Magazine and
ESPN.com.
Her research interests include
contemporary American literature, media culture, science fiction, science and
technology studies, and disability studies. She is currently researching how
disabled bodies crucially shaped conceptions of electronic communication in the
post-WWII era, and has written articles on female hackers in Cyberpunk fiction,
and the little known history of the first cybernetic limb and its influence on
communication engineering in the early Cold War era.
Her course, "Unruly
Bodies: Gesturing Toward a New Rhetorics of Body Language" explores how
advances in science, technology, medicine, and culture have transformed our
understanding of disability, normalcy, and health.
- Contact
Information:
- Lindsey
Felt
- Lecture Material:
- Pre-lecture slides - 2.26 Mb pdf file
- Slides - 758 Kb pdf file
- Links:
- Unruly Bodies: Gesturing Toward a New
Rhetorics of Body Language - (video 2:42)
- My Bionic Quest for
Boléro - Michael Chorost
- The New Normal: The Rhetoric of
Disability - (video 2:37)
- Between
Sound and Silence
- Slide 9 -
Cochlear Implant Simulation - (video
1:57)
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