Animacies

Animating AnimacyRecently, after reaching a threshold of "recovery" from a chronic illness-an illness that has affected me not only physically, but spatially, familially, economically, and socially, and set me on a long road of thinking about the marriage of bodies and chemicals-I found myself deeply suspicious of my own reassuring statements to my anxious friends that I was feeling more alive again.Surely I had been no less alive when I was more sick, except under the accountings of an intuitive and immediately problematic notion of "liveliness" and other kinds of "freedom" and "agency."I felt unsettled not only for reasons of disability politics-for "lifely wellness" colludes with a logic that troublingly…