ABSTRACT

We have written this article as performative co-autoethnography in which we focus on a crisis of communication we experienced as deaf/nondeaf collaborators. We bring together Deleuze's concept of ‘becoming-other’ with Guattari's concept of ‘a-signifying semiotics’ to demonstrate how a focus on the affective dynamics of a-signification allows us to attend to the immanent nature of deaf/nondeaf communication. Situating the highlighted crisis within the larger context of Joseph Valente's work as the only deaf professor within a larger, audist university culture, we work to performatively demonstrate the rich necessity of keeping the dynamic, unknowable, intense, frightening, and exciting nature of negotiating communicative differences at the forefront of our research and our day-to-day collaboration.

摘要

我们已将本文写为表演性合作民族志，其中我们重点介绍了聋人/非聋人合作者所经历的沟通危机。我们将德勒兹（Deleuze）的“成为他人”的概念与瓜塔里（Guattari）的“ a-符号符号学”的概念结合在一起，以展示对a-符号化的情感动态的关注如何使我们关注聋/非聋交流的内在本质。我们将约瑟夫·瓦伦特（Joseph Valente）作为较大的听觉大学文化中唯一的聋人教授的大背景置于突出的危机之中，我们努力表现出保持交际谈判充满活力，不可知，强烈，令人恐惧和令人兴奋的本质的丰富必要性研究和日常合作中最重要的差异。