on the problem of Indexing for Disability Justice: blocks, plates, boards, volumes and shafts

in conversation with Ren Loren Britton and Lieks Hettinga

  "There is an ongoing controversy, an ongoing renegotiation. We can see around a political need and desire to keep on considering; so not to close, or foreclose, not to not to arrive to a final consensus on what categories are there. An ontological openendedness if I may call it so. This means to take care of the redistribution of the sensible in the midst of such conditions, including an ontology of shape-shifting aesthetics which is constantly moving, with categories constantly differing from one another and in constant tension. I think this is also politically generative — to think about categories, and this ontology they make from an aesthetic perspective.

I wanted to celebrate the way in which your work, Ren, is really in love with the slipperiness of language. This is also a form of bringing language to places where it feels more poetic and not so much only descriptive. I celebrate this because language was never exclusively about the very technical accountability of the word, to begin with.

And to return to what I was saying earlier, slipperiness is a means for staying with the ongoing redistribution of the sensible in the linguistic realm. When you do that, many other forms also enter the mode and become slippery fields - like spreadsheets as containers which also eventually overflow. Thanks to poetics very grey corners of the world, like spreadsheets, gain some glitter in a radical political sense."

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