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Touch the future : a manifesto in essays / John Lee Clark.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton and Company, [2023]Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 187 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781324035367
  • 1324035366
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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.
Summary: 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. In "Against Access," he interrogates the prevailing advocacy for "accessibility" that re-creates a shadow of a hearing-sighted experience, and in "Tactile Art," he describes his relationship to visual art and breathtaking encounters with tactile sculpture. He offers a brief history of the term "DeafBlind," distills societal discrimination against DeafBlind people into "Distantism," sheds light on the riches of online community, and advocates for "Co-Navigation," a new way of exploring the world together without a traditional guide.-- Amazon.com.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 362.41 C593 Available 33111011208051
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A revelatory collection of essays on the DeafBlind experience and the untapped potential of a new tactile language.

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. In "Against Access," he interrogates the prevailing advocacy for "accessibility" that re-creates a shadow of a hearing-sighted experience, and in "Tactile Art," he describes his relationship to visual art and breathtaking encounters with tactile sculpture. He offers a brief history of the term "DeafBlind," distills societal discrimination against DeafBlind people into "Distantism," sheds light on the riches of online community, and advocates for "Co-Navigation," a new way of exploring the world together without a traditional guide.

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.

As warm and witty as he is radical and inspiring, Clark encourages us--disabled and non-disabled alike--to reject stigma and discover the ways we are connected. 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.

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. In "Against Access," he interrogates the prevailing advocacy for "accessibility" that re-creates a shadow of a hearing-sighted experience, and in "Tactile Art," he describes his relationship to visual art and breathtaking encounters with tactile sculpture. He offers a brief history of the term "DeafBlind," distills societal discrimination against DeafBlind people into "Distantism," sheds light on the riches of online community, and advocates for "Co-Navigation," a new way of exploring the world together without a traditional guide.-- Amazon.com.

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.

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