Several critical disability studies scholars and crip theorists suggest that disability might be read as a position from which to rewrite a different future. What would the world look like if its unfolding presumed disability were a fundamental part of it? Disability is thought valuable for reconfiguring social relations because it exists on the margins of, if not “outside,” those relations. Disruptive potential resides in the anomalous, in “deviance.” In this chapter, I grapple with the problem that criminalized behavior poses for the notion of “futurity.” In an ableist world, disability is often used to explain criminalized practices and dismiss any meaning they might have. This assures the ableist world that it does not need restructuring and represses the possibility of beginning from disability. It is unlikely one will write a different future based on disability when it is so often conflated with criminality. In analyzing portrayals of Ted Kaczynski, the chapter suggests that crip theory might advance its agenda by reading the Kaczynskis of the world as moments that provide a mirror to the pathology of normalcy.

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Ableism as Repression of Dissent: The “Spectrum Figure” that Might Have a Point

  • Ronald Kramer

摘要

Several critical disability studies scholars and crip theorists suggest that disability might be read as a position from which to rewrite a different future. What would the world look like if its unfolding presumed disability were a fundamental part of it? Disability is thought valuable for reconfiguring social relations because it exists on the margins of, if not “outside,” those relations. Disruptive potential resides in the anomalous, in “deviance.” In this chapter, I grapple with the problem that criminalized behavior poses for the notion of “futurity.” In an ableist world, disability is often used to explain criminalized practices and dismiss any meaning they might have. This assures the ableist world that it does not need restructuring and represses the possibility of beginning from disability. It is unlikely one will write a different future based on disability when it is so often conflated with criminality. In analyzing portrayals of Ted Kaczynski, the chapter suggests that crip theory might advance its agenda by reading the Kaczynskis of the world as moments that provide a mirror to the pathology of normalcy.