Cheap Talk (#622)

Author: khemarato

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+title: "Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication"
+authors:
+  - "Joshua St. Pierre"
+external_url: "https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12158924"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tOYp1E7alZMYAmxliGxUuq3LZuJKkeLq/view?usp=drivesdk"
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dT3rbpZPyboK1LPkHAuYAXCo8CJlowLC/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: info-capitalism
+tags:
+  - communication
+year: 2022
+olid: OL60914604M
+publisher: "University of Michigan Press"
+address: "Ann Arbor"
+pages: 141
+---
+
+> The production of cheap talk relies everywhere on the depoliticisation of communication. Cheap talk displaces a shared traversal of difference with a technocratic exchange of messages. [...] This is a thoroughly sterile ecology of communication: minds making speech to transfer information to other minds. [...] It is not dysfluency but fluency that ensnares life with a type of deathly repetition.
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+> There are political and existential questions at stake that are difficult even to articulate within a surge of cheap talk: What might a dysfluent event become if not immediately managed? How might we relate differently? What might we become?