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Technopsyence and Afro-Surrealism's Cripistemologies

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This article critiques today’s digital mental health research and treatment paradigms through a crip theoretical approach. I argue that, in a neoliberal risk culture and austerity logics that use big data to capacitate and debilitate, psychiatric technoscientific endeavors (what I call technopsyence) reproduce racial capitalism in their aim of governing mentalities. Yet mobile devices are also the means by which crip bodyminds creatively interrogate and resist racial capitalism and the psy discourses that support it. I explore a recent work of AfroSurrealism that presents scenes of extractive racial capitalism, fantasies of digital futures, mental distress, and care, and that, I argue, opens up avenues for thinking bodyminds and the digital otherwise.

This is a 2023–2025 project led by InterAccess, in collaboration with Tangled Art + Disability, and FEZIHAUS™.