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Psychosocial Disability and Post-Ableist Poetics: The "Case" of Hannah Weiner's Clairvoyant Journals
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Correspondence: pdurgin@saic.edu
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Hannah Weiner told me today she saw words so that she wouldn't have to have instincts.(Bernadette Mayer, April, 1981, letter to Bill Berkson)
Basing itself on the instincts, nineteenth-century psychiatry is able to bring into the ambit of illness and mental illness all the disorders and irregularities, all the serious disorders and little irregularities of conduct that are not, strictly speaking, due to madness. On the basis of the instincts and around what was previously the problem of madness, it becomes possible to organize the whole problematic of the abnormal at the level of the most elementary and everyday conduct. This transition to the miniscule, the great drift from the cannibalistic monster of the beginning of the nineteenth century, is finally converted into the form of all the little perverse monsters who have been constantly proliferating since the end of the nineteenth century. (Michel Foucault, Abnormal 132)
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Dependency, Dismodernism, and Psychosocial Disability |
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Hannah Weiner's Post-Ableist Poetics |
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