As the life span increases, the relative independence that many people sometimes enjoy looks more and more like a temporary condition, a phase of life that we move into gradually and all too quickly begin to leave. Even in our prime, many of us encounter shorter or longer periods of extreme dependency on others—after surgery or a severe injury, or during a period of depression or acute mental stress.
Disabilities and social contract, Needs for Care, Problems of Justice, Martha Nussabaum
The mental, physical, and social impairments that I have just described all have rough parallels in the conditions of the elderly, who are generally even more difficult to care for than children and young adults with disabilities, more angry, defensive, and embittered, less physically pleasant to be with.
Disabilities and social contract, Needs for Care, Problems of Justice, Martha Nussabaum
Books are bodies, exhibitions are other bodies, buildings are bodies — what is it that makes a body "complete"? What makes a body of an exhibition "whole"?
Some Stories Various Questions, Exhibition Prosthetics by Joseph Grigely
It is in a situation like this that the prosthesis is an attachment, and the point of attachment becomes pronounced, akward, and never quiete belongs in the way that we would like it to — the clunky hyphen syndrome.
Some Stories Various Questions, Exhibition Prosthetics by Joseph Grigely
Independence — Interdependence
Week 7
Lecture: Capability and potentiality
Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership by Martha Nussbaum,
Prompt: Make your art accessible to blind and deaf audience
