Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: What is Sex?: An Introduction to the Sexual Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
- 1 Alien Sex: Octavia Butler and Deleuze and Guattari's Polysexuality
- 2 Heterotica: The 1000 Tiny Sexes of Anaïs Nin
- 3 Haemosexuality
- 4 Disability, Deleuze and Sex
- 5 Tongue and Trigger: Deleuze's Erotics of the Uncanny
- 6 (Hetero)sexing the Child: Hans, Alice and the Repressive Hypothesis
- 7 The ‘Non-Human Sex’ in Sexuality: ‘What are Your Special Desiring-machines?’
- 8 Deleuze and Selfless Sex: Undoing Kant's Copernican Revolution
- 9 A Preface to Pornotheology: Spinoza, Deleuze and the Sexing of Angels
- 10 Encounters of Ecstasy
- 11 Beyond Sexuality: Of Love, Failure and Revolutions
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
4 - Disability, Deleuze and Sex
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: What is Sex?: An Introduction to the Sexual Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
- 1 Alien Sex: Octavia Butler and Deleuze and Guattari's Polysexuality
- 2 Heterotica: The 1000 Tiny Sexes of Anaïs Nin
- 3 Haemosexuality
- 4 Disability, Deleuze and Sex
- 5 Tongue and Trigger: Deleuze's Erotics of the Uncanny
- 6 (Hetero)sexing the Child: Hans, Alice and the Repressive Hypothesis
- 7 The ‘Non-Human Sex’ in Sexuality: ‘What are Your Special Desiring-machines?’
- 8 Deleuze and Selfless Sex: Undoing Kant's Copernican Revolution
- 9 A Preface to Pornotheology: Spinoza, Deleuze and the Sexing of Angels
- 10 Encounters of Ecstasy
- 11 Beyond Sexuality: Of Love, Failure and Revolutions
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Summary
The corporeality of disability … is already queer in its contestation of the very separation of self and other. The so easily silenced whisper of a kinship that would be denied … is growing into a roar that marks a new understanding of embodiment which owes much to Deleuze … I should like to offer the … bold speculation that the Deleuzian project will be realized at least in part through the medium of rethinking disability.
(Shildrick 2009: 142)This chapter seeks to evaluate the potentiality that Deleuze offers to our understandings of sexuality and disability. Such an encounter is at the heart of what we might term critical disability studies where disability links together other identities, politics and cultural agitations as a moment of reflection for which Davis coins the term ‘dismodernism’ (Davis 2006). With specific reference to sexuality and the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari1 – and in particular to the ideas of the Deleuzian disability theorist Margrit Shildrick – we will here take up the dismodernist challenge in our applied social scientific research in order to think affirmatively and politically about the intersections of disability and sexuality. First, we will consider the ways in which critical disability studies have recently started to engage with a Deleuzian perspective in order to theorise an affirmative view of disability.
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- Deleuze and Sex , pp. 89 - 105Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2011