| I argue that the lived experience of disabled people should be validated instead of a facile categorization. Thus far, a disabled sensibility is reduced to a categorical interpretation. Through my examination of a theatrical performance I illustrate how a disabled/able persona negates a disabled sensibility and allows an audience to experience the exotic disabled without examining their own ?ableism?. Sobchack?s and Clark?s examinations demonstrate how both the techno-body and the cyberbody continue to devalue a disabled embodiment and sensibility. In the final section of the article I explore how Deleuze?s concept of ?difference in itself? can free disabled people from the concepts of identity, hierarchy, representation and categorization that have been employed to devalue their embodiment and sensibility. Moreover, I believe that Deleuze?s alternative theory of ?difference in itself? can validate a disabled embodiment and sensibility. |