I’d been meaning to blog on this for such a long time. I sort of put it off, because… well, for all sorts of reasons. But I’ve been reminded of Aimee Mullins’ talk by the recent (and well deserved … how good is it?) buzz about TED. On reflection, though, I think I’ll post the video without commentary. But I’d be fascinated by your comments.
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Wow, what a wonderfully expressive person. It is brilliant seeing people exploring, in a positive way, the extents of their reality. While I was watching that presentation I found myself wondering haw that would reconcile against many comments made in threads here over the years.
Amazing woman, and some very interesting ideas.
That said, I would be rather dubious about generalizing her experience, and perhaps the experiences of below-knee leg amputees for whom modern technology has provided wonderful new types of prostheses, more widely.
Ask a quadriplegic whether they feel disabled.
Tops! She’s awesome.
My favourite TED talk.
I love her ideas about the necessity of poetry and the merits of inviting people to look and look a little longer…but question the harnessing of a gaze constructed as male for doing that. Also a little bit uncomfortable about the uncritical celebration of consumerist models of choice as empowering. Still, those ideas are only questions not condemnations. She’s interesting.
I liked her point about children being nervous of things they are told to be nervous of. Food for thought.
Pretty much what Laura said, but gets me thinking more about (de)territorialization than the morality of consumption
Is there any one person in the blogosphere that could be considered having ‘all the answers’.
Cause I’d love to read him/her.
I’m sick of people having a little bit of an idea about this, not so much about that. Why can’t we find someone who will explain the world???
She’s fabulous and all praise to her efforts – but, realistically, where does the conversation leave disabled people who don’t look like supermodels? Not much more “augmented” I expect, until society changes its attitudes on other fronts …
There is a lot more to Aimee Mullins than a pretty face and a snazzey pair of legs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Mullins
She’s much better at balancing in heels than I am