Open AccessCyborgs and Fox Wives
Author(s) -
Joanne Weber
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
canadian journal of disability studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1929-9192
DOI - 10.15353/cjds.v10i1.729
Subject(s) - ideology , deleuze and guattari , poetry , assemblage (archaeology) , sign (mathematics) , sociology , subject (documents) , aesthetics , the arts , the imaginary , modality (human–computer interaction) , linguistics , psychoanalysis , art , philosophy , psychology , history , visual arts , law , computer science , political science , archaeology , politics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , library science , human–computer interaction
Using an arts based posthumanist lens, (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987; jagodzinski & Wallin, 2013) I examine my evolving beliefs about American Sign Language (ASL) through the analysis of arts based data (poetry) (Leavy, 2015). Central to my analysis is an examination of Western domination and control of the language used by ‘othered’ communities through the imposition of dualisms, binaries and categories in sign language ideologies (Canagarajah, 2013). This exploration traces the evolution of sign language ideologies embraced by the deaf cyborg subject featured in the poetry volume as she explores ways to survive and resist the effects of a monolingual language ideology embedded in an imaginary assemblage containing intra-actions between human, animal, earth and machine (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987).