On Unconditional Hos(ti)pitality: Thinking-doing Strategies for Dis/Abling Arts Education
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1344/jnmr.v2i1.33370Abstract
Hospitality and diplomacy are understood as universal hosting parameters. However, they fail to address non-neurotypical perception, jeopardising the inclusiveness of arts education environments. By bringing hospitality, inclusiveness, neurotypicality, and more-than-human wildness into conversation, I argue for developing pedagogical spaces oriented to deconstructing normalcy. This article emerges at the intersection of disability studies and neuroqueerness and it is further developed through KarenBarad’s take on non-human agency and Deleuzoguattarian schizoanalysis. Jacques Derrida conceptualises hostipitality to problematise how hospitality cannot enable radical difference. I discuss this notion in dialogue with anecdotes from The Spaze, which is a schizoanalytical experiment and a procedural architecture oriented to non- neurotypicality developed at the Senselab. There, relationality is understood as always more-than-human. In this article, I furthermore examine how diplomacy’s rhetoricexcludes non-neurotypical perception by enacting what Félix Guattari names normopathy, namely, the privileging of linguistic patterns, human-to-human relationalities, and typical socialities. By discussing non-neurotypicality, I aim to queer rhetoric in arts education, diffracting Derrida’s notion of hospitality to foreground the more-than-human relationality developed by Deleuzoguattarian and Baradian perspectives.
Downloads
References
Barad, Karen (2003). Posthumanist performativity: Toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 28(3), 801-831. https://doi.org/10.1086/345321.
Barad, Karen (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning.Duke University Press.
Barad, Karen (2012). Nature’s queer performativity. Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 1-2, 25-53.https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v0i1-2.28067.
Barad, Karen (2014). Diffracting diffraction: Cutting together-apart. Parallax, 20(3), 168-187.https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2014.927623.
Corsín Jiménez, Alberto (2013). Introduction. Journal of Cultural Economy, 7(4), 381-398. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2013.858059.
Cutler, Emily Sheera (2018). Listening to those with lived experience. In S. Steinhard, Critical psychiatry:Controversies and clinical implications (pp. 179-206). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02732-2_8.
Deleuze, Gilles & Guattari, Félix (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. (B. Massumi, Trans.). University of Minnesota Press. Originally published in French 1980.
Deleuze, Gilles & Guattari, Félix. (2000). Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and schizophrenia(R. Hurley, M. Seem & H. R. Lane, Trans). Continuum. Originally published in French in 1972.
Den Houting, Jacquiline (2019). Neurodiversity: An insider’s perspective. Autism, 23(2), 271-273. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361318820762.
Derrida, Jacques, & Dufourmantelle, Anne (2000). Of hospitality: Anne Dufourmantelle invites Jacques Derrida to respond. (R. Bowlby, Trans.). Stanford University Press.
Derrida, Jacques (2000). Hostipitality. (B. Stocker & F. Morlock, Trans.). Angelaki, 5(3), 3-18.https://doi.org/10.1080/09697250020034706.
Ernst, Wolfgang (2015). Stirrings in the archive: Order from disorder. (A. Sigel, Trans). Rowman & Littlefield.
Guattari, Félix (2012). Schizoanalytic cartographies. (A. Goffey, Trans.). Bloomsbury. Originally published in French in 1989.
Geerts, Evelien (2016, August 16). Ethico-onto-epistem-ology. New Materialism Almanac. Retrieved from http://newmaterialism.eu/almanac/e/ethico-onto-epistem-ology.
Ho, Ai Binh T., Kerschbaum, Stephanie L., Sanchez, Rebecca, & Yergeau, Melanie (2020). Cripping neutrality: Student resistance, pedagogical audiences, and teachers’ accommodations. Pedagogy 20(1), 127-139. Retrieved from https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/746057.
Kearney, Richard (2019). Double hospitality. Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion, 1(1), 71-89. https://doi.org/10.1163/25889613-00101005.
Jaarsma, Pier, & Welin, Stellan (2011). Autism as a natural human variation: Reflections on the claims of the neurodiversity movement. Health Care Analysis, 20(1), 20-30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-011-0169-9.
Löytönen, Teija (2017). Educational development within higher arts education: an experimental move beyond fixed pedagogies. International Journal for Academic Development, 22(3), 231-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144x.2017.1291428.
Manning, Erin (2016). The minor gesture. Duke University Press.
Manning, Erin (2017). In the act. In P. de Assis & P. Giudici (Eds.), Dark precursor: Deleuze and artistic research(pp. 488-509). Leuven University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt21c4rxx.50.
Massumi, Brian (2014). What animals teach us about politics. Duke University Press.
Massumi, Brian (2017). The principle of unrest: Activist philosophy in the expanded field. Open Humanities Press.
McDougall, Joyce (1992).Plea for a measure of abnormality. Routledge.
Rolnik, Suely (2017). The spheres of insurrection: Suggestions for combating the pimping of life. E-flux, 86. Retrieved from https://www.e-flux.com/journal/86/163107/the-spheres-of-insurrection-suggestions-for-combating-the-pimping-of-life/.
Roscigno, Robin (2019). Neuroqueerness as fugitive practice: Reading against the grain of applied behavioral analysis scholarship. Educational Studies, 55(4), 405-419. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2019.1629929.
Senselab (2016). Anarchive: A concise definition. Retrieved from https://senselab.ca/wp2/immediations/anarchiving/anarchive-concise-definition/.
Shakespeare, Tom (2012). Still a health issue.Disability and Health Journal, 5(3), 129-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2012.04.002
Smith, Daniel W. (2012). Jacques Derrida: Deleuze and Derrida, immanence and transcendence: Two directions in recent French thought. In Essays on Deleuze(pp. 271-286). Edinburgh University Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt3fgqq7.21.
Stevenson, Angus & Waite, Maurice (2011). Concise Oxford English Dictionary (12th ed.). Oxford University Press.
St. Pierre, Elizabeth A. (2018). Post qualitative inquiry in an ontology of immanence. Qualitative Inquiry, 25(1), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/de1077800418772634.
Trento, Francisco B. (2020). A procedural space for failure. Research in Arts & Education, 2020(2), 1-22. Retrieved from http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2020072447600.
Yergeau, Melanie (2018). Authoring autism: On rhetoric and neurological queerness. Duke University Press.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
The authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication.
- Texts will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work, provided they include an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship, its initial publication in this journal and the terms of the license.
