“Un/Just Care: Imagining the History (and Future) of Disability, Technology, and Care.” Field Review for Just Tech. 2023.
Created by: David Adelman
An essay/manifesto (in the vein of Liz Jackson’s Disabled List) mapping out the curious tendency to presume complex medical technologies as a neutral tabula rasa, rendering it both ahistorical as a genre, and also apolitical—the result of a “natural” technoprogressivism or capitalist “innovation.” Moving from the (recent) Phillips respirator scandal to the always already depreciated presence of the wheelchair-as-technological-savior, and finally touching on the fluid network of crip cyber sexualities—as evidenced by accessible sex toys, and teledildonics. This piece draws on both critical accessibility studies and a feminist preoccupation with care.