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(Edited transcript from the fifth annual hybrid Disabled Artist Symposium, held online and at the Multicultural Center at Illinois State University) BERT: All right. Hello, everybody in the Zoom world and hello everybody at the Multicultural Center here in scenic Normal, Illinois. My name is Bert Stabler, and I'm very happy to announce is our fifth annual Disabled Artists Symposium, happening here and online and I would like to just, before I do anything, offer a few remarks

Image from Maybe an Image of AI (digital photo series), 2022-ongoing The title of Dagmar Herzog’s 2024 book The Question of Unworthy Life derives from Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche’s 1920 book Die Freigabe der Vernichtung lebensunswerten Lebens, or “Permission to Annihilate Life Unworthy of Life”, which Herzog identifies as the “main template” for the Nazis’ eventual mass murder (officially called “euthanasia”) of disabled people. She cites a Nazi textbook that differentiat

metanogénesis vítreo, 2024 The bulk of Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling is comprised of individual chapters devoted to each of the five senses as they appear in discourses on social distinctions in the early decades of modern consumer culture. In the chapter on scent, author Erica Fretwell cites Hippolyte Dussauce’s 1868 Practical Guide for the Perfumer , wherein Dussauce states that “odors impregnate all bodies”—although, as Fretwell