Palais #40

Issue 40 of P L  S magazine features a constellation of artists and critical thinkers whose practices are shaped by the lived experiences of disability and issues of accessibility. From the 1970s to the present day, these perspectives have interrogated the foundations of North American and Western European societies, crystallised around ideals of speed, autonomy, performance, and hyperproductivity. Each contribution exposes the mechanisms of ableism that establish a hierarchy between bodies. Together, they remind us that the supposedable-bodiedness on which this system rests is anything but permanent.