Julia Kristeva & Disability as Abjection: The Body Politics of Late-Stage Capitalism
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- An analysis concerning the disabled subject where disability and its interconnection with the relations of labor under capitalism is scrutinized through the lens of Julia Kristeva's theory of the abject. This analysis of the disabled abject arrives at a ultimate argument that modern conceptions of disability sustains late-state capitalism and its margins of profit through the usage of the disabled body as a social control.
I was excited to see this title on your list of videos. I was not disappointed.
I'm not really sure what to comment, i think this video covers its subject matter really well, but I wanna mention that I found the presentation of it very calming and soothing as someone who's struggled with becoming disabled and being diagnosed and finding out I would probably never achieve particular capitalist milestones as a result. That illusion of being able to buy my worth in society by becoming a "real person" through work is powerful, and there's something very tragic about my past self to me as a result.
I also just really liked your voice in this one :) An affect I found comforting really helped me get through this despite how emotionally wrought it is as a topic.
As a disabled person, I find your vids to be incredibly interesting!!
The abjection of the disabled body is to force the working body into one place. The identity of a late capitalist agent is encoded in their exploitable labor potential. Abjection serves as a means to unite the disabled subject into a singular identity with the past. This leads to a contradiction at death - who WAS John Doe?
Was John Doe the disabled man who lost his life to injury 20 years before he died, or was John Doe the struggle defined during those 20 years?
Disability forces a subject to split into new surfaces like a broken mirror. The attempt to reconcile this distributed body in a world of egos results in disability due to the delay of coordinating these parts.
As such, abjection also serves to contain unified capitalist identity, and to socialize a specific view on identity that contains ourselves to the limitations of our bodies. Its no surprise that naive Darwinism was and continues to be such a popular answer to these problems - encapsulating phylogenetic lines that confine our existences to nodes of the bloodline.
Thank you for making this so clear. ❤
Both the commentary and the archive material and visuals are so helpful towards the understanding of this reason for our separation and path to self acceptance.
I love this
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How about accelerating the forces of production to such an extent where disabilities will become, not cured, but able to be worked around? You critique everyones favourite phrase ''Late-Stage Capital' but provide no answers as to how this would improve under any other system. For Marx: "In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want"