“Slow life thinks about connections between how people are denied access to movement and/or are displaced (mobility); how disability and maiiming are spatially produced, distributed, and contained (debility); and how people experience time in relation to spatial geographies (temporality). Whether it be the time of spectacular violence that turns out to be no afterlife at all, the interwovenness of temporality, debility, and mobility are absorbed into the violence of the everyday. Slow life, I argue, is therefore a reckoning with the capitalist captures of uncertainty. And as a corollary argument, slow life refers to the collectivization of slow time that upends the distinctions between those with mobility disabilities and those able-boded whose movements are circumscribed.” (Puar 124)
Puar, Jasbir K. “Critical Disability Studies and the Question of Palestine: Toward Decolonizing Disability.” Crip Genealogies, by Therí Alyce Pickens, edited by Mel Y. Chen et al., Duke University Press, 2023, pp. 117–34. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478023852-005.
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