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Disability Studies
Disability studies is a relatively new interdisciplinary academic field focusing on the roles of people with disabilities in history, literature, social policy, law, architecture, and other disciplines.
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Incurable, hopeless, excessive, organic, ill: this is the language of chronic disease, of the static bodies it indexes and the defective temporalities it engenders. The modality of the chronic, then, is less safely habitual than the compromised, the unconjugated, the "would" in the sense of being able or unable to realize one's will.
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― Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century
― Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century
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In the ratio, as autism rates are understood to be increasing, the autistic 1 stays the same; it is rather the non-autistic population that seems to be getting smaller. . . The ratio works, in effect, to structure a rivalry or competition—a kind of Foucaultian 'agon' or contest—between constructed oppositions: autism/nonautism, pathology/health, underdevelopment/development, cost/benefit.
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― War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
― War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
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