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By Jay Timothy Dolmage

Incapacity Rhetoric is the 1st ebook to view rhetorical concept and heritage in the course of the lens of incapacity stories. ordinarily, the physique has been obvious as, at top, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, these whose our bodies don't comply with a slim diversity of norms are disqualified from conversing. but, Dolmage argues that verbal exchange has continually been keen about the which means of the physique and that physically distinction is usually hugely rhetorical. Following from this rewriting of rhetorical heritage, he outlines the improvement of a brand new thought, declaring the information that every one conversation is embodied, that the physique performs a imperative position in all expression, and that higher consciousness to quite a number our bodies is consequently necessary to a greater figuring out of rhetorical histories, theories, and probabilities.

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In the sixth and final chapter, “I Did It on Purpose,” I apply the concepts and critiques of the previous five chapters to a contemporary cultural text, the site of a recent example of the mythical life of both rhetoric and disability: the movie The King’s Speech. Disability Studies of Rhetoric Ideas about disability in the ancient world are part of our common consciousness. —Martha Rose, The Staff of Oedipus In this first chapter I want to make two initial moves to align disability studies and rhetoric.

That is, it functions to mark out those bodies that do not fit.  . , 109). The norm, reliant as it at first was upon statistics gathered across a broad population, is similar to what Aristotle calls the absolute mean—a way 4. Davis explores how industrial capitalism figured this norm mathematically and economically through concepts like the bell curve. Of course, in our own late capitalist society, the math might be better understood through something like the Occupy movement’s 99 percent. Our society could be seen as organized around a desire to be part of the 1 percent and our social structures designed to deliver privilege to this 1 percent, and yet regardless of how hard we strive, most of us will never share these privileges.

I will further define such disability studies methods here, directly, and as I use them throughout this text. Just as there are many different disabilities under the umbrella of disability studies, there must be many rhetorics generated by disability rhetoric: already, there is a growing field of Autistic rhetorics, for instance (see Yergeau 2010, Rodas 2009, Yergeau and Duffy 2011, Yergeau and Heilker 2011, Broderick 2011) or rhetorics of mental disability (see M. 2 My goal here is not to cover all of this ground, but to make space and to structure occasions for others to move.

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