Transreal tracing

Queer-feminist speculations on disabled technologies

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4367499
AutoresKatta Spiel (0000-0001-6094-9531, HCI Group, TU Wien, Austria, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume23
Fascículo2
Páginas247-265
Data de publicação2022-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/14647001221082299
PMID35762016
OpenAlexW4221004206
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas46

In a world where technologies often serve to amplify the persistent rendering of disability as an undesired deficit, what we need are empowering utopias concerning bodies, disabilities and assistive technologies. Specifically, I use Barad's article 'Transmaterialities: Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings' to illustrate how we might speculate on technologies that understand disabled bodies as affording potentials. The Transreal Tracing Device reimagines our bodies as surfaces of possibility, encouraging explorations into how disabled bodies do and could look like. The speculative device offers an opportunity for positive renegotiations of disabled bodies as malleable and desirable - as ontologically indeterminate and transcendent. In traversing theoretical approaches and using them to design queer-feminist utopias centring disabled people, the concept challenges dominant notions of disabilities and assistive technologies alike. I close by discussing implications for ability-based, participatory but even more so self-determined design, and how to shift the focus of disabled technologies towards potential, from support to appreciation, from isolation to kinship and, ultimately, from shame to pride

Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Tracing · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender Studies · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology