Reimagining Disabled Futurities: Of Personhood, Communication, and Intersubjectivity Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India Michele Ilana Friedner, Minnesota, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2022. ix+288 pp. Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Minnesota, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2020. xiii+316 pp.

Abstract

This book review essay tries to bring together two extremely pivotal books to understand how we can reimagine dominant modes of communication and how debunking the normative ideas surrounding it helps us to cognize personhood and intersubjectivity better. Michele Friedner's ‘Sensory Futures’ and Wolf-Meyer's ‘Unraveling’ are both critical attempts that try to understand how the sensory and neurological experiences of our body are essentially social, thereby reimagining how we understand personhood and subjectivity. Through a comprehensive analysis of both these texts individually, and in tandem with one another, this book review aims to highlight how we can find pathways to reimagine the body-mind as inherently social and how we can try to build a more inclusive and inhabitable world that is multisensorial and multimodal.