How Long to Read Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays

How Long Does it Take to Read Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays by John Lee Clark

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A revelatory collection of essays on the DeafBlind experience and the untapped potential of a new tactile language. Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an unprecedented language and way of life based on physical connection. In a series of paradigm-shifting essays, Clark reports on seismic developments within the DeafBlind community and challenges the limitations of sighted and hearing norms. In "Against Access," he interrogates the prevailing advocacy for "accessibility" that re-creates a shadow of a hearing-sighted experience, and in "Tactile Art," he describes his relationship to visual art and breathtaking encounters with tactile sculpture. He offers a brief history of the term "DeafBlind," distills societal discrimination against DeafBlind people into "Distantism," sheds light on the riches of online community, and advocates for "Co-Navigation," a new way of exploring the world together without a traditional guide. Touch the Future brims with passion, energy, humor, and imagination as Clark takes us by the hand and welcomes us into the exciting landscape of Protactile communication. A distinct language of taps, signs, and reciprocal contact, Protactile emerged from the inadequacies of ASL—a visual language even when pressed into someone’s hand—with the power to upend centuries of DeafBlind isolation. As warm and witty as he is radical and inspiring, Clark encourages us—disabled and non-disabled alike—to reject stigma and discover the ways we are connected. Touch the Future is a dynamic appeal to rethink the meanings of disability, access, language, and inclusivity, and to reach for a future we can create together.

How long is Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays?

Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays by John Lee Clark is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays aloud.

What Reading Level is Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays?

Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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