Size Matters: Polytoning Rhetoric's Perverse Apocalypse

Gunn, Joshua

doi:10.1080/02773940701779744

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“…While the performances of gender, sexuality, class, and race are rightfully receiving increased attention in the critical humanities (see, for example, Calafell, 2012), we should be equally reflexive about the implicit and explicit ways these disciplines perform ableism (Dolmage, 2017). Writing for and getting articles published in academic journals is not a feat that comes with equal ease to everyone, and yet, in today’s neoliberal academy, it has never been more central to “measuring” one’s academic size, virility, and prowess (Gunn, 2008, pp. 85-86).…”

Section: Conclusion: On Neoliberal Detachmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Subjects of Technology: An Auto-Archeology of Attention Deficit Disorder in Neoliberal Time(s)

Hanan

2018

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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This essay (re)presents my own experiences living with attention deficit disorder (ADD) as a child and adult to provide a radically historical, contextual, and critical autoethnographic conceptualization of this “learning disability.” Specifically, by building upon Ragan Fox’s “auto-archeological” method, a critical perspective that “unite[s] autoethnography and Foucault’s theories of discourse,” I draw upon institutional artifacts, psychiatric diagnoses, and interviews with close family members to show that ADD is a “technology of the self” that economizes the body in accordance with a distinctly neoliberal temporality. This temporalizing process, I show, is reinforced by a range of other neoliberal technologies of selfhood and ultimately cultivates the very “deficit framework” that ADD diagnoses are aimed at healing. The conclusion questions the legitimacy of ADD outside of the various technological interfaces that make the disability visible as a public problem and considers the intimate connections between neoliberalism, ableism, and the contemporary university.

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Section: Conclusion: On Neoliberal Detachmentmentioning

confidence: 99%