Futuri trip: aggiornamenti dell'immaginario

Abstract

In many cultural texts, disability and futurity take different paths. We will analyse several narratives which work as a background for this assumption, proposing in every section some counter–narrations. Firstly, disability is often understood as a tragedy. Secondly, it is often presumed that disabled people are nostalgic of their ‘former’ selves, which freeze them in a suspended time. Then, we will examine how our incapacity to imagine a flourishing future with disability affects our removal of disabled people from our collective future. Lastly, we will propose an imagined world which already, sometimes, presents this erasure: science fiction — and especially some utopian and feminist texts.