Latest posts tagged with #CompDis18 on Bluesky
OK tweeps here's a messy archive of ALL THE TWEETS from #CompDis18 at GW. "Composing #Disability: #Crip Politics and the Crisis of Culture" (March 22-23, 2018) @ComposingDis @gwengl https://storify.com/JonathanHsy/compdis18
@RobertMcRuer ALL THE TWEETS! #CompDis18 "Composing #Disability: #Crip Politics & Crisis of Culture" @ GWU https://storify.com/JonathanHsy/compdis18
Day 2 of #CompDis18 was a wondrously frenetic and wobbly day of activity: animated convos and delightful moments of overlap and convergence @ComposingDis @gwengl #disability #nofilter
#CompDis18 engaged convo on the ethics of enactment
#CompDis18 AJoubin ends with the famous question of Spivak on who can "speak?" or not. Even "benevolent" efforts to give "voice" to marginalized groups can nonetheless condescend and make spectacle of suffering
#CompDis18 AJoubin on the audist/oralist norms/assumptions in "Theory of Everything" and "King's Speech" -- assumption that vocal speech as preferred, even over alphabetic writing, even over writing/walking, etc.
#CompDis18 AJoubin traces how popular biopics about "crip" characters (e.g. "Theory" re: Hawking, and "King's Speech" re: George) were respectively based on existing memoirs. Loss/gaining of voice
#CompDis18 AJoubin what happens when the mediated "iconic" crip voice is no longer crip? Hawking w/o the mechanized voice, Bertie w/o the stammer
#CompDis18 AJoubin reads the framing devices of "The King's Speech" and placement/dominance of technology in visual rhetoric of the film
#CompDis18 AJoubin on the listener often positioned as the passive "object" of praxis
#CompDis18 AJoubin reading the "To Be Or Not To Be" scene from "The King's Speech" -- where the audience takes the visual POV of the therapist but the aural (auditory/sonic) POV of the stammerer
#CompDis18 AJoubin close reading of opening sequence of "The King's Speech" and the interplay of visual rhetorics as well as sound; microphone as if its own character, POV frame shots, global context for global media event
#CompDis18 AJoubin on "Theory of Everything" -- how does the filmic biopic make disability a mechanism for empathy? On "The King's Speech" and the regaining of voice through technology, heroic transformation/redemption
#CompDis18 AJoubin on "disembodied" voice of SHawking in most recent film biopic. "Can you hear me?" Is SH audible? Audience register acknowledgment and admiration; pity is easy to orchestrate in cinema, but empathy requires more complexity
#CompDis18 AJoubin “Disembodied Voices in British Biopics: The King's Speech and The Theory of Everything at the Cross-Roads of Fiction and Body Politics." Drawing on "supercrip" narratives on film drawing from memoirs. Focusing on vocal disorder.
#CompDis18 M. O'Donnell shows how popular and academic readings of Slater's "Lying" as failing to provide "more" honesty/truth than her previous work -- such readings reinforce dominant modes of thinking about the a/political status of psychosocial #disability memoir
#CompDis18 M. O'Donnell on Slater's "Lying" and epilepsy: critical responses to the memoir enact separation of political and personal ID that the narrative itself challenges. Popular and academic reception enacts these trends
#CompDis18 M. O'Donnell on Slater's "Lying" = facts are not truth. Contested discourse performance of psychosocial #disability makes "straight" objective narrative itself disingenuous
#CompDis18 M. O'Donnell on Slater's "Lying" refusing fact-based narration. What matters isn't historical truth but the narrative truth which is "bendable" & thus powerful; establishes a political personhood w/in literary fiction
#CompDis18 M. O'Donnell on Slater's "Lying" posing questions of offering a honest account if you're a "slippery sort" -- referring to a *type* of person and also the mechanisms of categorizing/sorting people
#CompDis18 M. O'Donnell on autobiographical narratives of ppl with psychosocial #disability: dominant discourses controls how "Truth" & ID are intwined. Slater's "Lying" memoir. Reception history evade the political and focus on the "personal" motives of the writing
#CompDis18 MO'Donnell: Towards a Political-Personhood: Contested Truths in Lauren Slater's "Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir." Thinking about psychosocial #disability and challenges in narrating life (e.g. Price, Yergeau)
#CompDis18 MDoss on Crosby's memoir. Post-truth era and slipperiness of "facts." #Disability isn't just one thing. Crosby instills empathy through difference, asks the unanswerable in post-critical mode
#CompDis18 MDoss: Crosby's "A Body Undone" on horror genre and sense of duality in body: "Such stories ... often create eerie, uncanny effects by presenting doubles -- two where only one should be" (19).
#CompDis18 MDoss Crosby's memoir reveals the individual and social at play in any body memoir. Deep awareness of the reader as active participant, symbiosis of reader & audience
#CompDis18 MDoss: Crosby's compounding of #queer and #disabilty identities in "A Body Undone." Initiates into new method of reading. "Bewilderment" presents project of memoir as a whole -- offers a contemplation for author and readers
#CompDis18 MDoss reading #disability memoir both as primary re/source and as theory. Crosby imagines herself of other participants in her "own" story, model of post-criticism
#CompDis18 MDoss: Crosby positions reader as participant. Diverges from other #disability memoirs through incompletion (not "ending" in beauty, happiness, etc.). Rita Felski on hermeneutics of suspicion. Post-critique helps to consider art & empathize before dismantling
#CompDis18 MDoss: empathy on key factor in #queer #disability memoir (e.g. Eli Clare), Crosby works in post-critical framework in "A Body Undone." Responding to accepting/accommodation of difference. Delineates narrative that has not been completed.
#CompDis18 MDoss on Queer Forms: Establishing a Politics of Empathy in Christina Crosby's 2016 memoir "A Body Undone: Living On After Great Pain." Constellations of identities forming selfhood & circumstances
