Hearing Deliberately: Sensible Communication and Perception in Walden

Kolb, Rachel

doi:10.1353/jnc.2021.0021

J19

2021

DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2021.0021

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Hearing Deliberately: Sensible Communication and Perception in Walden

Rachel Kolb¹

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Habilitation beyond the Bionic Metaphor: Producing Deafnesses of the Future

Lloyd

Bonventre

2023

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In this article, we travel back to the early days of experimental use of cochlear implants (CIs) in the 1970s, when unsettled expectations of the device and broad investigations of its effects began to settle and center on speech outcomes. We describe how this attention to speech outcomes coalesced into specific understandings of what CIs do, and how implicit or explicit understandings of CIs as bionic devices that normalize hearing influenced research on and expectations of CIs into the present. We conclude that accumulated evidence about what is known and unknown about experiences and materialities with CIs calls for a decisive break from the metaphor of the bionic ear. This shift would create a space to reconsider the “deafness of history and the present,” as well as experiences of brain–computer interfaces that are inclusive of nonnormative life. This article is based on fieldwork in research and clinical facilities in Australia, Canada, and the United States. It included forty-three interviews with clinical experts and leading researchers in the fields of audiology, psychoacoustics, and neuroscience, among them scientists involved in the development and commercialization of one of the first CIs.

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Habilitation beyond the Bionic Metaphor: Producing Deafnesses of the Future

Lloyd

Bonventre

2023

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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