Abstract
In this paper, I examine imagination as a performative expression using an ethico-aesthetic paradigm (which I take from Baruch Spinoza and Felix Guattari) which accounts for the ways, affects, as ethical orientations toward the world, participate in creative world-making amidst conditions of social and political entrapment. Using William James’ notion of “medical materialism” as a critical tool, I turn to the work and life of South Asian autistic poet Tito Mukhopadhyay to trouble the ways critical discourse understands ‘autism’. These are namely as a signifier for particular reductive perceptuo-aesthetic relations (an understanding I find in the work of Erin Manning), in order to re-conceive how disability politics might resist and restructure totalizing systems of global domination without referring to rights or identity claims. **Keywords**: Disability, autism, ethico-aesthetics, affect, world-making, imagination, medical materialism, embodiment, perception, neuro-reductionism, performativity, entrapment, crisis
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