RJ was the Head of Linguistics at Gallaudet in the 1980s.
[and he wrote lots of cool papers which are at the back of SEEING VOICES and other academic places].
[He got Oliver Sacks a first access pass - so to speak - into Deaf Prez Now].
One aspect of Sacks' genius which is very relevant to SEEING VOICES is the way he was open to others.
In the first essay of SEEING VOICES he opened himself up to Harlan Lane - who is a great documentarian of the Deaf and he was a culturalist.
Before Lane wrote his books and essays about the Deaf he wrote THE WILD BOY OF AVEYRON which is where I "met" him.
In regard to the University of New South Wales event - there were a lot of great Diversity; Equity; Inclusion notes - including those celebrating Autistic Culture and neurodivergence more widely.
I do indeed have a way of getting Apple TV.
Thinking of the ways that Rochester and Gallaudet are structured for visual languaging and the spatial worlds of the Deaf and sometimes the hard of hearing.
The way the schools are structured - more of a Clerc/Gallaudet way than an Alexander Graham Bell way.
In the 1970s and 1980s there were a lot of great computer images showing the three dimensionality of Sign.
I also appreciate the personal histories like of a girl called Charlotte.
Bringing it back to Sydney [or possibly Brisbane - the Lis were in Queensland a lot - because of the ballet company travelling] - Sophie Li found her Sign culture and language and this comes through in a fabulous documentary.
Also her Dad Li Cunxin has written another memoir - LUCKY BOY or something on these lines.
[Some people might remember Cunxin from MAO'S LAST DANCER and really want to know about his life in Australia].
And I think of Sacks through the insider and the outsider lenses you broadly define.
My favourite quote from SEEING VOICES begins with "A terrible power lies with the mother" ... and it reminds me of my bilingual and bicultural work.
[and it being written in 1986-1989]
Also I thought the University of California Press was really cool because it is a commissioned book. Then we got it through Picador. [Pan Macmillan]
[and the whole squeezing of the academic and the popular publishing space in the late 1980s which has only accelerated].
DEAF PRESIDENT NOW! is very much a cultural product of our time and space.
I have just been reading the third essay in SEEING VOICES by Oliver Sacks which is all about the Deaf Prez Now.
ALso Ron Johnson was a legend.
Love Olive Sacks. He was a genius.
The person I was thinking of was ROBERT JOHNSON.
RJ was the Head of Linguistics at Gallaudet in the 1980s.
[and he wrote lots of cool papers which are at the back of SEEING VOICES and other academic places].
[He got Oliver Sacks a first access pass - so to speak - into Deaf Prez Now].
One aspect of Sacks' genius which is very relevant to SEEING VOICES is the way he was open to others.
In the first essay of SEEING VOICES he opened himself up to Harlan Lane - who is a great documentarian of the Deaf and he was a culturalist.
Before Lane wrote his books and essays about the Deaf he wrote THE WILD BOY OF AVEYRON which is where I "met" him.
In regard to the University of New South Wales event - there were a lot of great Diversity; Equity; Inclusion notes - including those celebrating Autistic Culture and neurodivergence more widely.
I do indeed have a way of getting Apple TV.
Thinking of the ways that Rochester and Gallaudet are structured for visual languaging and the spatial worlds of the Deaf and sometimes the hard of hearing.
The way the schools are structured - more of a Clerc/Gallaudet way than an Alexander Graham Bell way.
In the 1970s and 1980s there were a lot of great computer images showing the three dimensionality of Sign.
I also appreciate the personal histories like of a girl called Charlotte.
Bringing it back to Sydney [or possibly Brisbane - the Lis were in Queensland a lot - because of the ballet company travelling] - Sophie Li found her Sign culture and language and this comes through in a fabulous documentary.
Also her Dad Li Cunxin has written another memoir - LUCKY BOY or something on these lines.
[Some people might remember Cunxin from MAO'S LAST DANCER and really want to know about his life in Australia].
And I think of Sacks through the insider and the outsider lenses you broadly define.
My favourite quote from SEEING VOICES begins with "A terrible power lies with the mother" ... and it reminds me of my bilingual and bicultural work.
[and it being written in 1986-1989]
Also I thought the University of California Press was really cool because it is a commissioned book. Then we got it through Picador. [Pan Macmillan]
[and the whole squeezing of the academic and the popular publishing space in the late 1980s which has only accelerated].
DEAF PRESIDENT NOW! is very much a cultural product of our time and space.