乔纳森·斯特恩（Jonathan Sterne）在《减少的能力》一书中提供了一个全面的文化研究和损伤理论。根据他个人甲状腺癌和声带麻痹的病史，斯特恩进行了一项关于损伤的政治现象学研究，从一个无法完全解释自身的主题的角度来理解经验。他将损伤视为人类经验的一个基本维度，并将其视为政治和身体两方面。虽然一些损伤在国际标准中被视为正常，但其他损伤则被视为疾病或残疾的原因或影响。除了他对经验的断章取义的描述，斯特恩还提供了一个可选的声乐技术和实践之旅；将“正常”听力损失作为一种文化实践而非医学问题进行研究；疲劳的历史和现象学交织在一起，从人到材料科学再到工业管理再到勺子，都遵循着这个概念。斯特恩向我们展示了残疾是如何以新的方式解决有关残疾、主观性、权力、技术和经验的更大问题的一个问题、机会和机会。能力减退以实用的损伤理论用户指南结束。
Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment
In Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his personal history with thyroid cancer and a paralyzed vocal cord, Sterne undertakes a political phenomenology of impairment in which experience is understood from the standpoint of a subject that is not fully able to account for itself. He conceives of impairment as a fundamental dimension of human experience, examining it as both political and physical. While some impairments are enshrined as normal in international standards, others are treated as causes or effects of illness or disability. Alongside his fractured account of experience, Sterne provides a tour of alternative vocal technologies and practices; a study of “normal” hearing loss as a cultural practice rather than a medical problem; and an intertwined history and phenomenology of fatigue that follows the concept as it careens from people to materials science to industrial management to spoons. Sterne demonstrates how impairment is a problem, opportunity, and occasion for approaching larger questions about disability, subjectivity, power, technology, and experience in new ways. Diminished Faculties ends with a practical user’s guide to impairment theory.
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