by Jon Lackman | 5 October 2006 | Journals
The August 2006 Journal of Visual Culture is themed “Disability-Visuality” and explores “the extent to which visuality is both determined by and determining of our understanding of disability. And how disability can bend our existing conceptions of visuality out of shape.” Fiona Candlin examines historical attitudes towards the sense of touch, particularly the ways in which it has been compared to the sense of sight, and accuses contemporary museums of having degraded touch through insensitive accessibility initiatives. David Serlin writes on disabled flaneurs from Helen Keller to returning war veterans, “demand[ing] a re-mapping of the very epistemological terrain of urban modernity.”
