Very amused by an email scooting through my inbox. If you take a wank word bingo sheet each for autism (medical model), academia and literature and meld them all together, you get this. I sometimes think we need a large shovel labelled plain English to smack people over the head with. Manifest Pleasures: Litany, Utopia, and Literary Autism One of the great pleasures of autism is its perseverative reenactments of symbolic order and containment. From clinical models identifying and defining autistic stereotypy to the repetitive and recursive systems of temporal and spatial exploration favoured by many autistic people, the inclination to play with symbolic pattern is widely recognized as a hallmark of autistic cognition, identity, and aesthetic. Regarded as one of the core diagnostic features of autistic disorder, repetitive signatures of autistic practice are typically understood in terms of deficiency: an inappropriate form of self-expression, an unhealthy or unproductive focus on the nonessential, or, a rigid and mechanistic form of interaction with the world. A growing minority of autism-friendly thinkers, however, has begun to challenge this dominant interpretive consensus, among other things, recognizing the hypersystemizing gesture--the autistic proclivity for pattern--as productive or creative rather than mechanistic, meaningless, or psychopathological. Unfolding this observation within an explicitly literary framework Dr Rodas draws a connection between survivalist inventories, the lists implicitly framed within formal petitionary prayer, and formally structured literary utopias, suggesting a generic relationship between these disparate forms and proposing that all three exhibit a fundamentally autistic literary aesthetic.
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 00:09:34 +0000
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