Autism is omnipresent in contemporary culture: it can be considered the 'zeitgeist condition.' As such, it characterises this zeitgeist, which is often theorised as moving in the direction of the posthuman. However, whereas popular notions of autism and the posthuman or cyborg tend to lay stress on either an absence or an overabundance in autistic people of rationality and a supposedly diminished capacity for empathy, and appear to envision the posthuman as disembodied and radically independent, a critical posthumanist perspective on autism would instead emphasise the autistic's and the cyborg's embodiment and interrelationality. Instead of imposing a humanist narrative on autistic people which celebrates autistic autobiography as a step in...
The historical construction of autism since the early 20th century has retained a focus on deficient...
Advisors: John Schaeffer.Committee members: Ibis Gomez-Vega; John V. Knapp.In this dissertation, I i...
Popular media, literature, and theory suggests that technology has induced a newly evolved, posthum...
This research project analyses and compares the autobiographies and fictional representations of peo...
This dissertation will look at the relationship between autobiography and the construction of the ...
The notion that autism is fundamentally a neurobiological impairment that can be treated, cured or o...
A lot of postcolonial novels feature characters with disordered communication, unable to express the...
This theoretical essay builds on existing literature to draw out the consequences of dehumanizing an...
This Thesis is a theoretical attempt to analyze the emergence of Autism as a discourse and, through ...
In Glen Finland’s memoir Next Stop, a mother confronts the decades-old American parenting ritual of ...
Detachment from external reality, distancing from others, closure into a sort of virtual hermitage, ...
About the book: Autism, a neuro-develomental disability, has received wide but often sensationalisti...
This excerpt from our collective biography emerges from a dialogue that commenced when Noel interjec...
Autism is typically framed as stemming from empathy deficits as well as more general cognitive and s...
This work is in part funded by the British Academy and also by the European Commission DREAM project...
The historical construction of autism since the early 20th century has retained a focus on deficient...
Advisors: John Schaeffer.Committee members: Ibis Gomez-Vega; John V. Knapp.In this dissertation, I i...
Popular media, literature, and theory suggests that technology has induced a newly evolved, posthum...
This research project analyses and compares the autobiographies and fictional representations of peo...
This dissertation will look at the relationship between autobiography and the construction of the ...
The notion that autism is fundamentally a neurobiological impairment that can be treated, cured or o...
A lot of postcolonial novels feature characters with disordered communication, unable to express the...
This theoretical essay builds on existing literature to draw out the consequences of dehumanizing an...
This Thesis is a theoretical attempt to analyze the emergence of Autism as a discourse and, through ...
In Glen Finland’s memoir Next Stop, a mother confronts the decades-old American parenting ritual of ...
Detachment from external reality, distancing from others, closure into a sort of virtual hermitage, ...
About the book: Autism, a neuro-develomental disability, has received wide but often sensationalisti...
This excerpt from our collective biography emerges from a dialogue that commenced when Noel interjec...
Autism is typically framed as stemming from empathy deficits as well as more general cognitive and s...
This work is in part funded by the British Academy and also by the European Commission DREAM project...
The historical construction of autism since the early 20th century has retained a focus on deficient...
Advisors: John Schaeffer.Committee members: Ibis Gomez-Vega; John V. Knapp.In this dissertation, I i...
Popular media, literature, and theory suggests that technology has induced a newly evolved, posthum...