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The Nightmare of Health: Metaphysics and Ethics in the Signification of Disability

Snyder, Brueggeman, and Garland-Thompson consider disability "a fundamental human experience" as well as "the ubiquitous unspoken topic of contemporary culture" (2). This is accurately stated but oblique, as it is ability, more precisely, that is the ubiquitous topic, and a topic not only difficult to recognize but even to speak perhaps a topic that is unspeakable. The study of disability tends to suggest this reversal, while often reversing the way sociocultural articulations appear to work, such as when disability critiques seek to expose reification. Indeed, the theoretical study of disability is concerned largely with the assumption of ability, with ableist assumptions that emerge constantly, by which behaviors and conditions appear as if they were real or natural. Confronting discourses about defective eyes or legs, or about mental or emotional aff liction features that putatively cause one's inability to see or walk or cope a disability critique will often recognize that, in the language of ability, seeing, walking, and coping are themselves being defined and thus emerge as at best interpretations of the supposed psychosomatic realities, realities that are revealed to emerge posterior to the always ad hoc, if naturalized, interpretive terms.1 Insofar as the study of disability becomes itself caught up in such a reversal, such study becomes defined according to what it does: not primarily concerned with the body or the mind, nor with specifically defined impairments, but rather with the discourse of the possible and the sociocultural context and ramifications of such discourse.