By David T. Mitchell

ISBN-10: 0472052713

ISBN-13: 9780472052714

In the neoliberal period, whilst human worthy is measured by way of its relative application inside worldwide buyer tradition, chosen disabled humans were in a position to achieve front into past due capitalist culture. The Biopolitics of Disability terms this phenomenon “ablenationalism” and asserts that “inclusion” turns into significant provided that incapacity is well-known as offering modes of residing which are choices to governing norms of productiveness and independence. hence, the ebook pushes past questions of impairment to discover how incapacity subjectivities create new different types of embodied wisdom and collective awareness. the point of interest is at the emergence of latest crip/queer subjectivities at paintings in incapacity arts, incapacity experiences pedagogy, autonomous and mainstream incapacity cinema (e.g., Midnight Cowboy), internet-based scientific consumer teams, anti-normative novels of embodiment (e.g., Richard Powers’s The Echo-Maker) and, eventually, the exertions of residing in “non-productive” our bodies inside of past due capitalism.

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