Spiel Katta
HCI Group, TU Wien, Austria.
Fem Theory. 2022 Apr;23(2):247-265. doi: 10.1177/14647001221082299. Epub 2022 Mar 16.
In a world where technologies often serve to amplify the persistent rendering of disability as an undesired deficit, what we need are empowering utopias concerning bodies, disabilities and assistive technologies. Specifically, I use Barad's article 'Transmaterialities: Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings' to illustrate how we might speculate on technologies that understand disabled bodies as affording potentials. The Transreal Tracing Device reimagines our bodies as surfaces of possibility, encouraging explorations into how disabled bodies do and could look like. The speculative device offers an opportunity for positive renegotiations of disabled bodies as malleable and desirable - as ontologically indeterminate and transcendent. In traversing theoretical approaches and using them to design queer-feminist utopias centring disabled people, the concept challenges dominant notions of disabilities and assistive technologies alike. I close by discussing implications for ability-based, participatory but even more so self-determined design, and how to shift the focus of disabled technologies towards potential, from support to appreciation, from isolation to kinship and, ultimately, from shame to pride.
在一个技术常常将残疾持续呈现为一种不受欢迎的缺陷的世界里，我们需要的是关于身体、残疾和辅助技术的赋权乌托邦。具体来说，我用巴拉德的文章《跨物质性：跨*/物质/现实与酷儿政治想象》来说明我们如何能够推测那些将残疾身体视为具有潜力的技术。跨现实追踪装置将我们的身体重新想象为可能性的表面，鼓励探索残疾身体现在的样子以及可能的样子。这个推测性装置为积极重新协商残疾身体提供了一个机会，使其具有可塑性且令人向往——在本体论上具有不确定性和超越性。在探讨各种理论方法并利用它们来设计以残疾人为中心的酷儿女性主义乌托邦的过程中，这个概念对残疾和辅助技术的主流观念都提出了挑战。最后，我将讨论它对基于能力、参与性更强且更具自我决定性的设计的影响，以及如何将残疾技术的焦点从支持转向欣赏、从孤立转向亲属关系、最终从羞耻转向自豪，从而转向潜力。
