http://nonsitecollective.org/taxonomy/term/90 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://nonsitecollective.org/node/468 I am entering this discussion within the fibers of personal and professional desire/response/ community discourse. On one hand, it delights me to know that notes for this discussion on disability/disablement were made during the Movement Research Festival Potluck, though also find admitted irony in the fact that I could not attend it due to my own chronic pain (as disability or from a physical disfiguration that is the disability, who can define which?). Something that has been a little hard for me to enter in this blog is the technical apparatus of "disability" and its various functions... I prefer more to find agency in a discussion of the mechanism of suffering, which is a very personal and continuous ____ for one who is disabled. This ____ is my gift to you, reader to insert whatever word you think fits best. I think of "place," "ground," "text," "momentum," "test," "dance," "funk," or "motherfucker." For me that is more interesting than this idea of re-invention that we seem to be fantastically splashing around in through this discourse. I am not saying that it is beside the point to re-work this term, or to create perspectives or situations where this sense of the abled and disabled border is dismantled. I think that the previous bloggers have done an excellent job of that on the nonsite, but I AM saying that pain is pain, discomfort is important information, and that can't be by-passed by a revision of terminology or code. The most important art that I have witnessed or been a part of has emerged from or addressed the artist's struggle to overcome suffering, whether it is rooted in disfigurement, addiction, loss of many kinds, and the awkward place where a desire cannot be met but persists in its strength of presence, like the struggle for identity whether that is maintaining one or uncovering one. http://nonsitecollective.org/node/468#comments d disablement discussion discussion discussions Poetics of Disablement Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:11:10 -0400 M. Perel 468 at http://nonsitecollective.org