Material Disability: Creating New Paths for Disability Studies

Crilley, Mariah

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“…These deliberations on the relationship between disability, corporeality and materiality cement the posthuman approach as crucial in delineating humanity's collective experience of change by focusing on alterations of the way individual bodies interact with technological advances. Mariah Crilley posits that "science studies and new materialism offer a language and an ethics with which to account for a nuanced and dynamic materiality for the inseparability of body and self, of disease or disability and self, even microbe or gene and self" [38] (p. 306). Goodley, Lawthom and Cole believe the disabled subject "demands and affirms interdependent connections with other humans, technologies, non-human entities, communication streams and people and non-peopled networks;" disability is "the quintessential posthuman condition: because it calls for new ontologies, ways of relating, living and dying" [39] (p. 352).…”

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Perfecting Bodies: Who Are the Disabled in Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca?

Fahn

2020

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This paper will examine the impact of genetic technologies on the corporeal and economical aspects of human lives while emphasizing the ambiguity of disability under these subversive circumstances. In 2013, the world was introduced to CRISPR genetic editing technology, followed by the controversial announcement in 2018 from Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who claims to have genetically engineered twins that were born HIV-immune. The possible social outcome of genetic treatment leading to the alteration of human embryos to create physically and intellectually superior offspring, as well as its impact on the social treatment of disabled bodies, is clearly illustrated in Andrew Niccol’s directive debut Gattaca. Here, I will discuss Niccol’s utilization of disabled characters in interrogating the employment of disabled characters as a narrative vehicle to reflect upon social paradigms. I examine both the subversion and expansion of the social construct of disability in Gattaca’s narrative, emphasizing the film’s portrayal of economic differences as a disabling factor in a world of augmentative technology.

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Perfecting Bodies: Who Are the Disabled in Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca?

Fahn

2020

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The Biocultural Possibilities of Sportswomen’s Health

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Clark

2020

New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures

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The violences of disability disclosure and the aberrant possibilities of the crip

Bierdz

2024

Research in Spec Educ Needs

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This article delves into the processes of disability disclosure, cripped experiences and a particular theoretical flight with posthuman subjectivity. The article critiques disability disclosure for coercively reifying cripped experiences into normative narratives. Moreover, disclosures determine coercive and performative regimes in educational contexts, where disciplinary power defines possible experiences for cripped folks. Drawing on Foucault's and Butler's works to ground our conversations of reification and coercion, I then pull on and complement Deleuze and Guattari's works to argue that disclosure places the nonsensicality of disability outside conventional determinations of sense, defining the cripped being as nonbeing to maintain the productive boundaries of sense/nonsense. Finally, I play with crippedness that refuses definition and disclosure as a posthuman subjectivity that celebrates fluidity, multiplicity and nonsense. My final section of the article offers a cripped path where the disabled, posthuman subject resists sense‐making and embraces multiplicity, fluidity and nonsensicality as a particularly embodied refusal. This article critically explores the reifying nature of disclosure while envisioning possibilities where crip and posthuman studies converge, promising a shift towards imagining posthuman subjects that honour the nonsensical and multiplicitous nature of cripped experiences that refuse disclosure/definition qua reification, coercion and sense.

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Material Disability: Creating New Paths for Disability Studies

Cited by 6 publications

References 1 publication

Perfecting Bodies: Who Are the Disabled in Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca?

Perfecting Bodies: Who Are the Disabled in Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca?

The Biocultural Possibilities of Sportswomen’s Health

The violences of disability disclosure and the aberrant possibilities of the crip

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