The Cochlear Implant at the End of the World
Staging disability in an apocalyptic future, the film A Quiet Place insists that we think beyond a logic of functionality if we want to survive environmental crisis
Liz Bowen
Liz Bowen is a Ph.D. candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University, where she is working on a dissertation that traces disability and animality as intertwined sites of literary experimentation. She is the author of the poetry collection Sugarblood (Metatron Press, 2017) and the chapbook Compassion Fountain (Hyacinth Girl Press, forthcoming). She is also an editor at Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal and works on the poetry team at Anomaly magazine.