Fugitive Sensing with Michele Friedner

What happens when we treat hearing as an economic duty, and global tech corporations turn assistive devices into a lifetime commitment? In this episode of The Good Robot, Eleanor Drage sits down with medical anthropologist Michele Friedner (University of Chicago) to discuss her groundbreaking book, Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India. Together, they dismantle the normative project of "normalization" and expose the immense, hidden labor required to keep assi...