Corporalizaciones de artistas contra-capacitistas hacia la reconfiguración de una nueva política de vida: un análisis arqueológico-genealógico del dispositivo capacitismo en Colombia entre 1991 y 2022

Abstract

This thesis proposes lines of reflection for the construction of a new form of governmentality that breaks the relationship between truth, power, and the subject established by ableism, and recognizes the emergence of other forms of existence that claim difference, moving away from mandatory bodily ability as an affirmation, rather than a lack, in the creation of new meanings for shared life and the emergence of a politics of multiplicity. The problematic axes of the research are: the inquiry into the ableism apparatus as a life policy that produces subjectivities outside mandatory bodily capacity, and its manifestation in forms of governmentality in Colombia; the emergence of the crip subject as a global event challenging ableism; and anti-ableist artistic practices as lines of flight for constructing new forms of organizing difference and establishing new communal bonds. From Foucault's critical perspective, the ableism apparatus is interrogated through an archaeological-genealogical analysis of disability regulations in Colombia between 1991 and 2022. This analysis makes visible the production of the ableist subject in Colombia, and how its power effects create a specific existential condition called a person with a disability, whose subjectivity responds to the notion of a pre-constituted, free, and autonomous subject, typical of the requirements of economic and political liberalism and the democracy of the majorities. Finally, through the antagonism of strategy, the subjective tensions arising from this mode of subject production and its ideal identity based on mandatory bodily capacity versus a critical-creative approach that, through art, aesthetic experience, and activism, claims its bodily difference as a potentiality and resists its normalization are revealed.