“The embodiment of pure thought”? Digital fabrication,
disability and new possibilities for auto/biography

Hurley, UK

Abstract

This essay draws on findings from a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council project: “In the Making” (AH/M006026/1) to argue that the digital turn in art therapy – particularly 3D printing – makes possible new forms of disability agency, engaging post-humanist theory to suggest re-conceptualizations of embodied person-hood.
Keywords: digital fabrication; disability; auto/biography; embodiment

Citation

disability and new possibilities for auto/biography. Auto/Biography Studies, 33(2), 285-300. https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2018.1445509

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 17, 2017
• Online Publication Date: May 9, 2018
• Publication Date: May 9, 2018
• Deposit Date: Feb 6, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: May 14, 2018
• Journal: a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
• Print ISSN: 0898-9575
• Electronic ISSN: 2151-7290
• Publisher: Routledge
• Volume: 33
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 285-300
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2018.1445509
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2018.1445509
• Related Public URLs: http://www.inthemaking.org.uk/; http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=raut20
• Additional Information: Projects : “In the Making: a co-constructed mapping and feasibility study of digital fabrication labs and their potential to catalyze cultural change”