Rhetoric Society Quarterly
May 2020
“I Forgot I’m Deaf!”: Passing, Kairotic Space, and the Midcentury Cyborg Woman
Krista Kennedy
Schlumberger (Ireland)
Abstract
Advertisements for hearing aids often tout the “invisible” nature of their product, designed to obscure visible markers of disability. This essay examines mid-century appeals to women hearing-aid wearers, emphasizing the labor of embodied and cognitive passing in kairotic spaces as well as practical rhetorical implications of human/machine integration, both of which continue to apply in contemporary contexts.
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- Rhetoric Society Quarterly
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- 2020-05-26
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- 10.1080/02773945.2020.1752129
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