Juxtaposing deafness in society
Written by a philosophy major, it shows - I got, ahem, a little lost somewhere near the last third of the essay. But it’s worth a read nevertheless, the comprehensible parts anyway. 8-)
Is the word deaf a label? How does it denote a person? Today, in this post-structural age, labels are everything. We use labels everyday, we speak in labels and we encounter labels everywhere. Sometimes we use labels for convenience, as shorthand for complicated concepts. Other times labels are used in technical vocabulary, to marginalize error. So, we identify ourselves with labels.
