La funzione spettro della disabilità. Studio di catottrica politica

In the wake of the catoptric metaphor’s tradition, the present study inscribes disability in those machinamenta capable of extracting evidences from the materials deposited in the sedimentary layers of historical formations. In this perspective, disability is con-ceived as a powerful social spectrograph having the strange feature to capture the State’s spirits that establish and summarize the perceptive, cognitive, moral, legal and political orders of an era. The conditions of such a capability seem to be enshrined in the particular status of disability as an element of disorder revealing both the estab-lished order and the multiple orderability of things. The result is an understanding of disability that has an inherent potential for deforming social structures.