Cyborgs, Tryborgs, Techno-Ableism
Perspectives of Feminist Disability Studies on Artificial-Intelligent Health Technologies
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2023.212Keywords:
Ableism, Autofiction, Cyborg, Feminist Disability Studies, Artificial Intelligence, TechnologyAbstract
Feminist disability studies has always maintained a tangled relationship with the icon of feminist critique of technology – the cyborg figure. Dimensions such as the questioning of ideologies of bodily naturalness, wholeness and closure have led to intense debate. At the same time, depoliticising metaphors of disability, the negation of the material, economic living conditions of disabled women and especially the idealisation of prostheses in the cyborg myth have always created unease on the part of feminist disability studies. This article takes this ambivalent relationship as a starting point to ask how the cyborg figure could be told differently. On the one hand, the focus will be on semi-fictional everyday knowledge of disabled women, and on the other hand, on the topic of artificially intelligent health technologies.
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