Synopses & Reviews
In the neoliberal era, when human worth is measured by its relative utility within global consumer culture, selected disabled people have been able to gain entrance into late capitalist culture.and#160;The Biopolitics of Disabilityand#160;terms this phenomenon andldquo;ablenationalismandrdquo; and asserts that andldquo;inclusionandrdquo; becomes meaningful only if disability is recognized as providing modes of living that are alternatives to governing norms of productivity and independence. Thus, the book pushes beyond questions of impairment to explore how disability subjectivities create new forms of embodied knowledge and collective consciousness. The focus is on the emergence of new crip/queer subjectivities at work in disability arts, disability studies pedagogy, independent and mainstream disability cinema (e.g.,and#160;Midnight Cowboy), internet-based medical user groups, anti-normative novels of embodiment (e.g., Richard Powersandrsquo;sand#160;The Echo-Maker) and, finally, the labor of living in andldquo;non-productiveandrdquo; bodies within late capitalism.
Synopsis
Theorizing the role of disabled subjects in global consumer culture and the emergence of alternative crip/queer subjectivities in film, fiction, media, and art
About the Author
David Mitchell is Professor of English and
Sharon L. Snyder is a faculty member at George Washington University.