03.10.01 - Into the Forest
29th Clip. Title: Into the Forest. 05:33 minutes long. Total: 2:45:51 hours.
This clip is posted with good wishes of a new year to all. The DeafRead, AGBell, NAD conferences, the Olympics, and the presidential elections in the year of 2008. In this clip, find out what VisMa had to do with the Deaf Child on its’ back and what happened to the Temple of Aris.
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Myth Commentary: The destruction of the Temple of Aris symbolizes the destruction of the classic fallacy that language and speech are connected. VisMa bringing the Deaf Child into the forest symbolizes the retreat into the deep forest of our humanity in form of feralness. More on that in the next clip.
Deaf history commentary: The destruction of the temple of Aris symbolizes the Renaissance and Reformation in Europe. Girolamo Cardano, an Italian physician, wrote in the 16th century on the emerging idea that deafness and speechlessness are not connected. At least by 16th century, some scholars such as Cardano, Alberti, and Camerarius began to realize the deaf are “educable”. For more information, go to pages in the books listed below.
Bibliography:
Bender, Ruth. (1981) The Conquest of Deafness. Danville,IL:The Interstate Publishers. p. 30 and 31.
Davis and Silverman (1978) Hearing and Deafness. Fourth Edition. Holt, Winehart and Winston. page 423 and 424.
Eriksson, Per. (1998) The History of Deaf People. Orebro, Sweden: Daufr. page 23 and 24.
Lang, Harry. (1994) Silence of the Spheres: The Deaf Experience in the History of Science. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey. page 1.
Scouten, Edward. (1984) Turning Points in the Education of Deaf People. Danville, IL: The Interstate Publishers. page 15.
Van Cleve and Crouch. (1989) A Place of Their Own. Washinton, DC: Gallaudet University Press. page 8 and 9.