This article presents an original and critical interrogation of how disabled activists establish claims coordinate activities to progress the independent living agenda. The achieves this by employing Beckett Campbell’s (2015) concept ‘oppositional device’, which is used understand resistance practices technologies power that coalesce around people’s collective action. argues could, similarly, b...

Independence -- the study of what is relevant to a given problem of reasoning -- has received an increasing attention from the AI community. In this paper, we consider two basic forms of independence, namely, a syntactic one and a semantic one. We show features and drawbacks of them. In particular, while the syntactic form of independence is computationally easy to check, there are cases in whi...