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"Why should our bodies end at the skin?": Embodiment, Boundaries, and Somatechnics (Shildrick, 2014)

Published on Mar 27, 2016

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"Why should our bodies end at the skin?": Embodiment, Boundaries, and Somatechnics
(Shildrick, 2014)

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WARNING

This is a CRITICAL disability studies paper
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What are the boundaries of a human?

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What are the boundaries of a human?

What are the boundaries of a human?

"prosthetic additions... both limit and extend the performativity of the self"
(p. 14)

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quasi-cartesian

body is a static base separate from self
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feminism

selves and bodies intertwine
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modernism

"let's rethink how we value these options"
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postmodernism

"wait... options?"

Deleuze

let's trouble all our boundaries
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premodernism

modernism

postmodernism

modernism

individual agency is awesome!
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but who does that exclude?

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and we expect the included
to be supercrips

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molar

well-defined, governing, totalizing metanarrative

athlete as event

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what if you don't want to
be a supercrip?

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using molar identities
to disrupt metanarratives

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assemblage

all sorts of things temporarily interacting

technics

user, technology, sociocultural context
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somatechnics

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what assemblages
are behind
what we perceive?

"she is not in a state of being, but becoming..."
(p. 19)

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vulnerability

the shared condition of becoming (p. 25)
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"Breaking free of molar identities.. is a potential open to all"
(p. 23)

thank you

question time!
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what's the difference between
critical disability studies
&
disability studies?

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what ethical considerations does (post)modernism
have for disability?

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is this describing
"being disabled"
as an advantage?

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TROUBLE EVERYTHING

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