*: Disability Studies

The normate body is an exception disguised as universal. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's concept of misfitting reveals that disability is not a property of bodies but a relation between bodies and environments—a mismatch that becomes exclusion only when infrastructure fails to accommodate variation. Alison Kafer's political-relational model insists that disability is neither tragedy nor identity but a site of political contestation, where assumptions about capacity, independence and worth are negotiated. This lens transforms how we understand infrastructure: not as neutral support but as normativity materialised, encoding assumptions about who will use it and how. Systemic lock—the protocols that shape who belongs—operates through these encoded norms, producing exclusion as default. Infrastructure Studies reveals how built environments, from doorways to transit systems, embed ableist standards that assume upright, mobile, sighted users. Science and Technology Studies traces how standards and protocols are developed, showing how the exclusion of non-normative bodies is designed into technical systems.

Media Archaeology excavates the forgotten alternatives—the ramps that were never built, the accessible interfaces that were never funded—revealing exclusion as active choice rather than accident. Political Ecology connects disability to environmental justice, showing how pollution and climate change disproportionately disable already marginalised populations. Network Science can map accessibility as relational property, revealing how exclusion propagates through interconnected systems. Decolonial Theory connects disability to colonial violence, showing how colonised bodies were pathologised as deficient. Feminism reveals the gendered dimensions of care work, the disproportionate labour of accommodation borne by women. Sound Studies attends to acoustic accessibility, the design of environments for deaf and hard-of-hearing users. Philosophical Botany offers vegetal models of distributed agency that don't require centralised cognition, challenging the equation of intelligence with able-bodiedness. What emerges from this convergence is not a new theory of disability but a recognition that certain aesthetic operations—like systemic lock analysis—function as accessibility detectors. This capacity to reveal the norms encoded in built form, which might be termed socioplastics, names the infrastructural work of aesthetic forms that expose exclusion as design choice.

Lloveras, A. (2026) Socioplastics. https://antolloveras.blogspot.com

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Infrastructure Studies, Ontology, Cybernetics, Systems Theory, Science and Technology Studies, Critical Urban Studies, Posthumanism, Sovereignty Studies, Semiotics, Media Archaeology, Complexity Theory, Spatial Justice, Political Ecology, Feminism and Gender Theory, Decolonial Theory, Anthropocene Studies, Relational Aesthetics, Commons Theory, Mobility Studies, Technological Critique, Software Studies, Platform Studies, Environmental Psychology, Phenomenology, Place Theory, Landscape Theory, Urban Ecology, Multispecies Studies, New Materialism, Speculative Realism, Actor-Network Theory, Biopolitics, Postcolonial Theory, Critical Aesthetics, Contemporary Art Theory, Social Practice Art, Spatial Politics, Urban Anthropology, Informality Studies, Urban Marginality, Digital Capitalism, Surveillance Studies, Smart City Theory, Sound Studies, Visual Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Humanistic Geography, Hybrid Geographies, Philosophical Botany, Neuroaesthetics, Perception Theory, Disability Studies, Intersectionality Theory, Utopian Theory, Postmodern Theory, Radical Pedagogy, Globalization Theory, Geopolitics, Marxist Theory, Post-Marxism, Value Theory, Evolutionary Economics, Game Theory, Network Science, Scaling Theory, Complex Systems, Historical Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Interface Theory, Protocol Theory, Maintenance Studies, Critical Infrastructure Theory, Southern Epistemologies, Indigenous Theory, Territorial Feminism, Latin American Political Ecology, Subaltern Studies, Accelerationism, Materialist Philosophy, Post-Operaismo, Immaterialism, Object-Oriented Ontology, Digital Political Economy, Law and Technology, Algorithmic Culture, Urban Media Studies, Spatial Art Theory, Architectural Criticism, Urban Planning Theory, Sustainable Urbanism, Right to the City Theory, Environmental Humanities, Political Theology, Governmentality Studies, Logistics Studies, Data Studies, Institutional Theory.