What’s Crip About Queer Theory Now?

Disability and the Posthuman

“…Certainly, we can read modernsim as a set of contradictory texts on this topic: the potentially progressive aesthetics of cubism's twisted bodies, say, as set against the prejudices about disability seen in the diaries and letters of D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and other titans of modernist cultural production. 53 There is no doubt that the critique of the modern practised by many theorists of posthumanism -unpacking its connections to eugenics, speciesism and a restricted notion of the 'human' for example -is valid; but equally Siebers' valorisation of the power of modern and avant-garde aesthetics to undo the logics of dominant social and cultural discourses has a long history of its own.…”

“…Kyle is networked in exactly these ways: he is physically and environmentally connected to the troops on the ground his sniping protects, while his decision-making is communicated and authorised through various audio command channels, enacting what Nayar terms an "info-flow", a process "materially produced through a mix of human and non-human actors where the possibility of action is embodied as both territory and bodily locations". 53 Kyle's action takes place across and through the technology he uses (these evenimprobably -include phoning his wife Taya (Sienna Miller) in the US while he is under fire). For all that he might appear as an individualised, coherent and centred self (and is constructed as such through the film's narrative concentration on his subjectivity), his environment is in fact a matrix often composed of distributed relationships made meaningful through distance.…”

“…52 This change in location, from smart midtown to working-class suburb, and Farnsworth's shedding his bespoke work suit as he walks, serve as a marker of the change (here, the literal journey) his disability produces. 53 He is sacked, and while he is rehired as a lowly staff attorney following an excruciating interview ("Oh please, please take me back!" his internal monologue recounts; "Grant me the full measure of life again […] I will be good, will do as told.…”

Coming to terms with ‘slow living’ in crip time: Graphic novels on chronic illness

“…Disability studies scholarship has argued for an appreciation and celebration of crip time -the concept that living with disability makes one experience time differently -one that acknowledges the ebbs and flows of different body-minds. For Kafer, crip time is validating, for "rather than bend disabled bodies and minds to meet the clock, crip time bends the clock to meet disabled bodies and minds" [1]. Towers explicates this flexible approach to time by chronicling the everyday struggles that this superhero faces with a comical spin.…”

Representing Male Disability in Colombian Audiovisual Media: The Masking of Social and Political Intersections inLos informantes

“…Additionally, crip theory also seeks to analyze the existing relationship between heterosexuality and able-bodiedness. Our project follows this contestatory approach since it is informed by previous studies(McRuer 2006;Kafer 2009) that question notions of acceptance, tolerance, assimilation, heteronormativity, and neoliberalism in relation to disability.5 The exploration of disability from a (critical) discourse analysis approach has been fruitful. Researchers have analyzed newspapers(Priyanti 2018), policy documents (Campos Pinto 2011; Price 2009), teachers' and parents' discourse(Kang 2009;Lester 2012), and virtual discourse(Björnsdóttir and Sigurjónsdóttir 2013), among other…”