194 Introduction To counteract discriminatory practices, people with sensory and cognitive disabilities, such as deafness, blindness and learning disability, demand diverse modes of public investment in a supportive environment. On that count, and a seemingly intrinsic characteristic, all the three disabilities appear to widely differ from each other. Actually, the differences between them are not all that overarching. For example, people with the above mentioned disabilities, with a considerable difference in orientation, share an emotional investment against a foundationalist view that there is a wide chasm between the idea of ability and disability. To examine such an investment, I deploy frameworks such as audism, visionism and sanism. For one thing, these frameworks are special com- mentaries on discriminatory contexts surrounding deafness, blindness and cognitive disability, respectively; and for another, they are useful descrip- tors to hand for exploring negative sensory and emotional presuppositions concerning disability. In considering these advantages, I also explore the universal import of these frameworks in shaping emancipatory emotional and sensory infrastructures. These infrastructures are particularly crucial in a market-driven context like ours where aggressive notions concerning sensory and cognitive abilities, and lack thereof, are on the increase. In putting together all the arguments, and for exploring policy implications of the triple-ism framework, I make use of a score of tools from fields such as historical analysis, philosophical argumentation and film criticism. 11 THREE ISMS Evolving sensory and emotional infrastructures to counteract disability discrimination Hemachandran Karah