Centralizing the cut: a feminist, queer, crip response to powerful playgrounds

Adaptive Behavior ◽

10.1177/1059712321989098 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 105971232198909

Author(s):

Simon(e) van Saarloos

Keyword(s):

Personal Experience ◽

Power Structures ◽

Inaugural Lecture ◽

Final Space ◽

Crip Theory

Responding to Erik Rietveld’s inaugural lecture, this commentary asks which bodies and what sites of design and architecture are centralized when thinking about “The Affordances of Art for Making Technologies”? Departing from personal experience and Nicholas Mirzoeff’s counterhistory of visuality, I analyze what it means to imagine “the end of sitting.” Through an engagement with crip theory and disability activism, I aim to understand which architectural sites should be disrupted. RAAAF’s practice of cutting and splitting closely relates to the work of the ‘70s artist Gordon Matta-Clark. But the radical proposals of both RAAAF and Matta-Clark engage with power in almost oppositional ways. While Matta-Clark offers the cut as a final space, RAAAF aims to create new worlds. I question the need for new worlds, since they are built on current power structures, instead of dismantling them.

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Positivisme dan Non-Positivisme dalam Jurisprudensi

Teosofi Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam ◽

10.15642/teosofi.2013.3.2.483-502 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 483

Author(s):

Biyanto Biyanto

Keyword(s):

Personal Experience ◽

Deductive Reasoning ◽

Social Philosophy ◽

Power Structures ◽

Basic Principles ◽

The Real ◽

National Life ◽

Real Truth ◽

Opposition Movement ◽

Contemporary Context

This article discusses about trend positivism and non-positivism paradigm in jurisprudence. This topic is important because discourse in social philosophy always relies on the rationality of whole arguments. The argument of justification is preceded through deductive reasoning, starting from paradigmatic premise that will be used to justify conclusion. Paradigmatic premise is the basic principles of truth which is believed to be the real truth. The real truth derives from personal experience in reflecting facts found in daily activities. In contemporary context of jurisprudence, there is a fierce battle between legal profesionals with its positivist paradigm (legal or formal law approach) and legal profesionals with its non-positivistic paradigm (legal morale substance approach). Many critics on positivism were responded by efforts to reform law through social movements. Social realist movement derives from diverse reality of socio-cultural configuration, within national life, will be significant when the movement is massively done, and supported by two pilars of civil society and political power. This opposition movement shall be continuously done to against the established side. The well established community has authority upon whole legal institution and usually will utilize all its power structures in order to maintain their interest.

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Coming to Claim Crip: Disidentification with/in Disability Studies

Disability Studies Quarterly ◽

10.18061/dsq.v33i2.3705 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Sami Schalk

Keyword(s):

Queer Theory ◽

Disability Studies ◽

Personal Experience ◽

Potential Space ◽

Sexuality Studies ◽

Non Fiction ◽

Creative Non Fiction ◽

Crip Theory ◽

Black Queer

This creative-critical paper combines creative non-fiction and theory to trace one non-disabled scholar’s personal experience with disability studies as a field and a community. Using disidentification and crip theory, this paper theorizes the personal, political, and academic utility of identifying with crip as a nondisabled, fat, black, queer, female academic. This crip identification then undergirds and informs the researcher’s scholarship in and relationship to disability studies as a field. Specifically referencing the Society for Disability Studies dance as a potential space of cross-identification, this paper suggests that disidentification among/across/between minoritarian subjects allows for coalitional theory and politics between disability studies and other fields, particularly race/ethnic and queer/sexuality studies. Keywords: crip, identity, queer theory, race

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