Backdating the Crip Technoscience Manifesto

This essay considers experimental filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin’s work as a lifelong process of technological activism and “knowing-making.” Using recent frameworks from Critical Disability Studies, Chamarette demonstrates how decades parallel in some cases pre-date the evolution Studies it is currently situated. As an early adopter digital ‘cusp-of digital’ technologies (Hi-8 cameras, Mini-DV tapes, email, editing suites), creative aligns with backdates “Crip Technoscience Manifesto” developed by Aimi Hamraie Kelly Fritsch 2019. Drawing on films his archive, now housed at University Reading Special Collections (UK) reframes late activity tactics adaptation, crip technoscience, spheres influence within non-digital realms. These activisms ultimately give cause to reflect ambivalent, interdependent, friction-filled relationships between filmmaking, digitality disability.