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Budapest W4: Performing Arts - Class Notes

Kafer's discussion of the future - what does a future without disability look like?
Approach to disability - third model of disability (political-relational model)

Identifying disability - Kafer goes beyond the identity politics for a basis of critical approach to disability
What are the political implications of her argument?

Claiming crip - anything non-normative is crip (is there a problem with this?)

Collective affinity - identity is not as necessary to include but people who need to be included are ones who are also experiencing oppression. Instead of drawing a boundary, it is about making a connection.

Jasbir Puar, The Right to Maim 2017
- Observation from the militarisation of police shooting demonstrated in Ferguson's case and the training of the US law enforcement by Israelis state -- where the right to kill goes hand in hand with right to maim -- that of creating injuring and maintaining population as perpetually debilitated, yet alive, in order to control them in the contemporary colonial geography.
- Also from the concurrence of the annual disability pride parade and the Black Lives Matter gathering on the same day in New York - the biopolitical fissures between the spectacle of disability empowerment pride and the protest of the targeted debilitation of an entire racialised population, which is central to state securitisation practices.
- "debilitation" - to discuss biopolitical operation that is often happening on a mass scale, to foreground the conditions in which certain population (usually non-white others) are sustained in a perpetual state of debilitation precisely through the foreclosure of the possibility to be translated into disability; that not only elides but also sustained by the category of disability as it is instrumentalised and normativised by state recognition

 Petra Kuppers, "Bodies, Hysteria, Pain: Staging the Invisible"

 Performance of something invisible in the context of visualisation as a technology of surveillance
Inner illness is interrogated through visual performances

Staging hysteria - visualising as technology of knowledge - through fixating the meaning what you see (as the revelation of the inner disorder). Somatechnology - when you see something, it is the evidence of something going on inside. Both the medical discourses but also literary romanticisation of hysteria.

We are so used to the power of technology of visualisation - the power of medical visualisation (X-Ray)

Cecily Devereux "Hysteria, Feminism and Gender Revisited"

-Hysteria as the invention of modern feminism (during Charcot and Freud's time), concurring with the First Wave feminism
- Reclamation of Hysteria by 'French feminism' in the context of the Second Wave (psychoanalysis as the state/capitalist apparatus)
- Hysterical engagement/feminist historiography/ the new hysteria studies
- Some background in the multiple and changing valences of hysteria in feminist theories

Hysterical engagement - something positively reclaimed

 Performing project

Madness – denying climate change is mad, but so is extreme lifestyles like veganism

Ministry of silly walks - making the normativity of the space visible by walking differently 

Podcast - reflection of progression between quarter-life crisis and now (how have things changed, focus on bits about anxiety)


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