%0 Journal Article
%T Subjects of Technology: An Auto
%A Joshua S. Hanan
%J Cultural Studies £¿ Critical Methodologies
%@ 1552-356X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1532708618807264
%X This essay (re)presents my own experiences living with attention deficit disorder (ADD) as a child and adult to provide a radically historical, contextual, and critical autoethnographic conceptualization of this ¡°learning disability.¡± Specifically, by building upon Ragan Fox¡¯s ¡°auto-archeological¡± method, a critical perspective that ¡°unite[s] autoethnography and Foucault¡¯s theories of discourse,¡± I draw upon institutional artifacts, psychiatric diagnoses, and interviews with close family members to show that ADD is a ¡°technology of the self¡± that economizes the body in accordance with a distinctly neoliberal temporality. This temporalizing process, I show, is reinforced by a range of other neoliberal technologies of selfhood and ultimately cultivates the very ¡°deficit framework¡± that ADD diagnoses are aimed at healing. The conclusion questions the legitimacy of ADD outside of the various technological interfaces that make the disability visible as a public problem and considers the intimate connections between neoliberalism, ableism, and the contemporary university
%K neoliberalism
%K affect
%K technologies of the self
%K auto-archeology
%K attention deficit disorder
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1532708618807264