He provokes his audiences to foster new crip con- nections, and to explore new crip possibilities and practices, whether academic, artistic, activist, or otherwise. McRuer’s work is as generative as it is insightful, and as creative as it is political. The result is a com- plex analysis of the role of compulsory able-bodiedness in the context of globa- lized neoliberal capitalism. He weaves together an array of theories, cultural productions, and socio-historical contexts with great care, wit, and generosity.
By these criteria, Robert McRuer’s publications, of which the most widely known is Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (2006), are crucial. The article concludes with reflections on sex surrogacy and the Netherlands, using that location as an exemplary site for examining the complex and contradictory position of disability and sex in relation to the contemporary state.A book, article, or theory might be judged not only by the insightfulness of the claims it makes, but also by the connections, possibilities, and politics that it fosters. Puar's Terrorist Assemblages) that do not emerge until much later-analyses stressing the uneven biopolitical incorporation of seemingly marginalized subjects into the contemporary state. The Disabled State, however, can also be read as anticipating, from a disability studies perspective, queer analyses (such as Licia Fiol-Matta's book A Queer Mother for the Nation or Jasbir K. Stone's book The Disabled State, arguing that Stone's text, like Rubin's, is concerned with how capitalism sorts bodies and behaviors into dominant and subordinated categories. This article attempts to “think disability” using the theoretical framework laid out by Gayle Rubin in her 1984 essay “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality.” After considering how Rubin's essay was already arguably engaged with a disability politics (or, more broadly, a politics of embodiment), it reads “Thinking Sex” alongside another 1984 text, Deborah A.
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