“Much more than an academic monograph, Cheap Talk is a disability poetics and yet also a kind of theoretical novel centering on three characters: the dysfluent speaker, the troll, and the talking head. Almost-unbelievably wide-ranging and thorough in its consideration of acts of communication and economies of information, yet driven by vivid and memorable vignettes and a careful weaving of voices, Joshua St. Pierre’s book vitalizes dysfluency and disrupts our control over communication, whether globalized or internalized.”
—Jay T. Dolmage, University of Waterloo
— Jay T. Dolmage, University of Waterloo
“St. Pierre has produced a work that is philosophically and theoretically rich while remaining accessible to a wide range of readers. The book’s careful attention to non-normative modes of communication and exchange works to push past the boundaries of liberal humanist understandings of intelligibility and inclusion towards radically new spaces of political belonging.”
—Anne McGuire, University of Toronto
— Anne McGuire, University of Toronto