Touch the Future
A Manifesto in Essays
New York, NY : W.W. Norton and Company, [2023], ©2023.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: viii, 187 pages ; 22 cm
"Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an unprecedented language and way of life based on physical connection. In a series of paradigm-shifting essays, Clark reports on seismic developments within the DeafBlind community and challenges the limitations of sighted and hearing norms. Touch the Future brims with passion, energy, humor, and imagination as Clark takes us by the hand and welcomes us into the exciting landscape of Protactile communication. A distinct language of taps, signs, and reciprocal contact, Protactile emerged from the inadequacies of ASL--a visual language even when pressed into someone's hand--with the power to upend centuries of DeafBlind isolation. Touch the Future is a dynamic appeal to rethink the meanings of disability, access, language, and inclusivity, and to reach for a future we can create together." -- Publisher's description.
Contents:
By way of a dedication -- Part one. Knowing and being known -- Against access -- Always be connected -- The view where I write -- Metatactile knowledge -- Part two. Forever and fluently fumbling -- Distantism -- DeafBlind--a brief history of our name -- Co-navigation -- Of masks and blindfolds -- Part three. A different center of gravity -- The texture of virtual touch -- Tactile art -- No stage -- My dream house -- Part four. How it feels to us -- A fable -- Reading environments -- Throw out the table.
Subjects:
Clark, John Lee, 1978-
Deafblind people -- Means of communication.
Deafblind people -- Social conditions.
Deafblind people -- United States -- Biography.
Deafblind people.
Clark, John Lee, 1978-
Deafblind people -- Means of communication.
Deafblind people -- Social conditions.
Deafblind people -- United States -- Biography.
Deafblind people.
ISBN:
9781324035367
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