Thresholds of the Flesh: Disability and Dis-ease and Producing ‘Ability Trouble’.

and pain is all all right, like a bridge over troubled water —Simon and Garfunkel umdiddleliddleliddleImgonnadie, umdiddleliddleliddleImgonnadie —Bob Flanagan The normative force of performativity—its power to establish what qualifies as ‘being’—works not only through reiteration, but through exclusion as well. And in the case of bodies, those exclusions haunt signification as its abject borders or as that which is strictly foreclosed: the unlivable, the nonnarrativizable, the traumatic. —Judith Butler, 1993, p. 188 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]