#crip and #disabled lives inherehently challenge the idea of the frictionless. We learn how to deal with the friction of our bodyminds, because we can't avoid it. Searches for cures, healing, wellness, all of these are in service to capitalist productivity. Productivity which is a frictionless as possibile - maximum production at all costs - work longer hors, multiple jobs, the economy must constantly grow. There must be constant activity [2/?]

But what I'm wondering is, what if the friction experienced by #disabled and #crip lives gives us a fundamental insight into how to exist and prosper under conditions of maximum human friction - where we know that it's the *quality* not *quantity* of how we exist and what we do that's the important bit - under conditions of slowness we manage to maximise despite the impssibility of speed which we are taught to desire. [4//5]

[Thread]Thinking about this in a #crip and #disability context:

"And I’ve realized that Mastodon is a superb example of antiviral design.

It was engineered specifically to create friction — to slow things down a bit. This is a big part of why it behaves so differently from mainstream social networks." https://uxdesign.cc/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51

Past few years I've been thinking on the way the social media landscape reflects the societal urge towards the frictionaless 1/?