ABSTRACT

In the last chapters I have tried to bring to fore the emergence of dis/abling spatialities. In the following, I will highlight the temporal construction of everyday spaces that make up the societal relevance of in/dependences and dis/abilities. Introducing Martin Heidegger’s notion of ‘time-space’, the proposed view tries to avoid bifurcating in/dependences and dis/abilities a priori as the effect of given realities. Rather, they again appear as highly fragile mediations of heterogeneous elements that make up the times and spaces of emerging in/dependences and dis/abilities. With special reference to ‘visual disability’, I will explore how ordinary acts of ‘dealing with money’ and ‘going shopping’ confi gure multiple ‘blind’ temporalities and spatialities of in/dependence and dis/ability.