FEM 2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Gilles Deleuze, Medicalization, Independent Living
26 Jun 2016
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Disabled people are entangled in multiple assemblages: the human-machine assemblages of wheelchairs, ventilators, or walkers; human-animal assemblages such as assistive animals like guide dogs; or disabled-abled assemblages of the disabled person and care attendant. Rather, the point is to consider how deleuze and guattari s (1987) concept of assemblage can move us toward an intercorporeal and relational ethics that has repercussions for all beings. To think about the body in relation to desiring forces and contingent formations is to shift away from the normative sovereign able body that poses as a body not impinged upon by others. For many disabled people, care has often been a site of oppression, disempowerment, physical and sexual abuse, and negligence. With the rise of industrial capitalism, many disabled people were unable to contribute financially to their households and were deemed objects of charity and medicalization. Until panzarino was 25, her mother was her attendant.
