La disabilità dell’esistenza

Abstract

Accompanied by the reflections of the book Beasts of Burden by Sunaura Taylor, the article highlights how animal condition and disability are often associated and the fact that this world, in its architectural and power structures, is built and designed to measure only for normal functional and human subjects. There is therefore an exclusion of all those subjects who do not belong to these categories, operating a real dis-ability of all the others. The article also proposes to replace the concept of inclusion - showing the deceptive fallacy contained in it - with that of sharing. Desire, the source of all inspiration for life, must be included in a project for the future that involves every form of life. This is the task of art today: to redraw the perspectives of reality, keeping in mind that, as Sartre says, existence itself is by nature disabled because it is based on nothingness and devoid of meaning, and that this condition, therefore, is not detached from any living individual.