{"id":1282,"date":"2017-09-26T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2019-08-09T15:54:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T14:54:22","slug":"book-review-brilliant-imperfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2017\/09\/26\/book-review-brilliant-imperfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Brilliant Imperfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/brilliant-imperfection\"><em>Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure<\/em><\/a> by Eli Clare, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2017, 240 pages, \u00a370.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Dr. Sue Smith<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1283\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2017\/09\/978-0-8223-6287-6_pr-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Brilliant Imperfection<\/em> is an elegant addition to the current topical debate concerning disability and cure written by disabled, transgender activist, Eli Clare. Combining personal memoir and acute observation with critical disability and transgender accounts of the medical-industrial complex and its drive to \u2018cure\u2019 human body-mind anomalies, Clare intermingles the queer politics of disability, gender, sexuality and eco-activism in order to create an intensely rich literary work.\u00a0 In essence, <em>Brilliant Imperfection<\/em> highlights the tensions and contradictions in contemporary anti\/pro-cure debates.\u00a0 While Clare\u2019s embodied difference informs both his personal beliefs and values about gender, disability and cure, it also forces him to critically engage with and address the contradictions inherent in such beliefs (ultimately in order to thoughtfully question and modify them).\u00a0 Structurally, consisting of an \u2018Introduction,\u2019 and a section titled, \u2018A Note On Reading This Book: Thinking About Trigger Warnings,\u2019 <em>Brilliant Imperfection<\/em> takes the reader through ten chapters of \u2018cure\u2019 in all its conceptual and material forms. For instance, in Chapters 1 and 2, titled \u2018Ideology of Cure\u2019 and \u2018Violence of Cure\u2019, Clare argues how disability and cure are constructed in society with the intention to repair, overcome and restore the impaired and damaged \u2018body-mind.\u2019<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0 Consequently, as Clare rightly states, the ideology of repair is often underpinned by a culture of violence that relies on \u2018ableist inventions of defectiveness\u2019 in order to eradicate disabled body-minds (23).\u00a0 Indeed, never is the disabled body-mind a means to think about how variation and difference may provide what disability scholar, Tobin Siebers calls, <a href=\"https:\/\/nonnormativepositivisms.wordpress.com\/\">non-normative positivisms<\/a>.\u00a0 A theoretical argument that makes a claim for disability as a beneficial and alternate way-of-being in the world \u2013 a mode of disability existence which Clare eloquently and repeatedly expresses in the beautifully rendered vignettes that precede each chapter and which sensitively and poetically explore human and non-human variation evident in society and nature.\u00a0 For instance, throughout <em>Brilliant Imperfection<\/em>, Clare often uses motifs of nature in order to consider the complexity of the <em>natural <\/em>and <em>unnatural<\/em> alongside humanity\u2019s desire to homogenize nature only to embrace and restore nature\u2019s lost or damaged biodiversity.\u00a0 For example in Clare\u2019s discussion of the American Prairie &#8211; nature and human history are presented as sharing a long, shameful and uneasy history of \u2018grass, dirt, bison massacre, genocide\u2019 alongside a concerted collective effort \u2018to undo the two centuries of environmental destruction wreaked by plows, pesticides, acres upon acres of soybean and corn\u2019 (16).\u00a0 By placing humanity\u2019s homogenization of nature in opposition to humanity\u2019s desire to restore nature\u2019s lost biodiversity, Clare tries to \u2018grasp their meanings asking, what is \u2018normal?\u2019 (17).\u00a0 As Clare questions: \u2018Is an agribusiness cornfield unnatural, a restored prairie natural?\u2019 (17).\u00a0 In this instance, for Clare, there are no easy or straightforward answers to such questions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alternately however, when Clare draws attention to the capabilities of his differently abled body, diversity and difference clearly challenges the \u2018norm\u2019 in a more meaningful manner.\u00a0 For example, in the vignette titled, \u2018Twitches and Tremors,\u2019 Clare draws attention to the generative possibilities of the anomalous disabled body in erotic play as two mutually interdependent lovers (one being himself) engage in an act of seeking out sexual pleasure, stating: \u2018I\u2019ve had lovers tell me how good my shaky touch feels, tremors likened to extra caresses [\u2026] their words an antidote to shame.\u00a0 But until now, I had never felt the pleasure they describe.\u00a0 Your twitches spread across my skin \u2013 tingle, echo, dance\u2019 (19).\u00a0 Historically, in western culture, the medical industrial complex has consistently desexualized the disabled body, devaluing and limiting its potential in the making of pleasure.\u00a0 However here Clare counters such stereotypes of asexual disability with a tender recollection of disabled bodies intimate, enraptured and innovatively engaged in new erotic possibilities \u2013 possibilities which are the outcome of impaired, vulnerable bodies.\u00a0 By \u2018grappling with cure,\u2019 Clare consistently weaves poetic images of nature and human difference with medical, social and personal debates of disability and cure.\u00a0 In Chapters 3 and 4, titled \u2018In Tandem With Cure\u2019 and \u2018Nuances of Cure,\u2019 Clare discusses his own mental retardation and cerebral palsy and of the humiliating life-long experience of enduring medical diagnoses, while acknowledging being drawn to the seductive possibilities of cure.\u00a0 In Chapter 5, titled, \u2018Structure of Cure,\u2019 Clare examines the pervasive presence of the medical-industrial complex and its bid to create and expand new markets which promise to \u2018correct\u2019 human imperfections that trouble the individual, such as skin colour.\u00a0 Here Clare directly targets the medical industrial complex for its unashamed pursuit of inventing new biomedical and pharmaceutical markets for pure profit, stating: \u2018In cure\u2019s long tradition, this declaration of trouble paves the way for selling repair\u2019 (78).\u00a0 At the same time, Clare confesses to desiring the expertise and promise of new biotechnology in order to help him cope with both his disability and his transgender identity. \u00a0Indeed it is the cognitive dissonance that he experiences as a disabled transgender man, that gives rise to Clare&#8217;s desire for acceptance for his disability, while also enticing him to try new medical procedures and drugs that promise to \u2018cure\u2019 his gender dysphoria.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The exploration of Clare\u2019s complex disability and gender identity and the desire for both acceptance and cure is when <em>Brilliant Imperfection<\/em> is at its best.\u00a0 In Chapters 6, 7 and 8 titled, \u2018How Cure Works,\u2019 \u2018At the Centre of Cure\u2019 and \u2018Moving Through Cure,\u2019 Clare shifts from how \u2018cure\u2019 has been elevated in the cultural imaginary as a promise to heal or improve the individual, while also revealing the history of medicine and biotechnology as a value-laden promise that has relied heavily on the devaluation of human variation and difference.\u00a0 Nonetheless, Clare argues for the understanding of bodies as never static, but always in constant motion and in transition, which, as Clare asserts, biomedicine is undoubtedly a part of.\u00a0 For instance, in \u2018Wanting a Flat Chest,\u2019 Clare argues that \u2018I thought I understood self-acceptance and love [\u2026] until [\u2026] I discovered an unshakable desire to reshape my body-mind using medical technology \u2013 first with chest reconstruction surgery and later with hormone replacement therapy\u2019 (137).\u00a0 In Clare\u2019s gender politics, the medical industrial complex is not just about profit but also about a desire for attaining a sense of wellbeing for bodies in constant motion and flux.\u00a0 As Clare states, \u2018All of our body-minds are in motion from the moment of birth to the moment of death\u2019 (137).\u00a0 Similarly, \u2018Gender transition in its many forms is simply another kind of motion\u2019 (137).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Embedded within <em>Brilliant Imperfection\u2019s<\/em> aesthetic and poetic musings and Clare\u2019s constant self-questioning, there is a critical disability discourse that directly targets the medical industrial complex.\u00a0 It is through an ideology of \u2018cure\u2019 that the medical industrial complex has, according to Clare, historically and systematically devalued human variation and difference, giving rise to institutions that have and continue to facilitate the eugenic treatment of alternate human lives.\u00a0 On this matter, Clare speaks from personal experience as he details the continually shifting medical terminology and treatment that has somewhat oppressively defined his social identity.\u00a0 However, in Chapters 9 and 10 titled, \u2018Impacts of Cure\u2019 and \u2018Promise of Cure,\u2019 Clare also declares how medicine and technology have created new interdependent connections between marginalised lives and facilitated lives that would have otherwise been lost.\u00a0 As Clare claims, \u2018I, [\u2026], am alive because of medical technology and the ideology of cure, which drives the discovery and development of that technology\u2019 (183). \u00a0Nonetheless, Clare also laments that \u2018Grappling with cure has led [him] to a maze of contradictions\u2019 from which he now wishes to \u2018step out\u2019 and \u2018let cure be the contradictory mess that it is\u2019 (183).\u00a0 Unable to detangle the knotty problem of the \u2018complexly woven\u2019 issue that is \u2018cure\u2019 (187), Clare finally returns to the motif of the \u2018restored prairie\u2019 a place in which nature and the human intermingle and cannot be undone, but also a place where a choice must be made between \u2018monocultures and biodiversities, eradication and uncontainable flourishing\u2019 (187).\u00a0 Finally it is here in which Clare demands acceptance in a world that is in constant transition; that is both \u2018imperfect and brilliant,\u2019 a world in which Clare states: \u2018I walk &#8211; a tremoring, slurring human, slightly off balance, one being among many\u2019 (187).\u00a0 In <em>Brilliant Imperfection<\/em> Clare sensitively tackles personal and social ambivalence in what is undoubtedly a very difficult (and at times a personally painful) subject matter.\u00a0 In Clare\u2019s provocative and engaging book, disabled and transgender lives are at once subjects requiring the professional world of medicine, while also demanding a critique of its uneven social structures and power relations that have given rise to discriminatory practises that continue to impact upon disabled and alternate lives today.\u00a0 Overall, Clare\u2019s <em>Brilliant Imperfection<\/em> is a welcome and accessible addition to growing academic and activist debates concerned with the political issue of disability and cure in the medical humanities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Clare\u2019s conceptual arrangement of body-mind is an attempt to remove hierarchical dualisms within patriarchy that conventionally presents the mind as superior to the body and the human mind as a key and defining feature that separates humans from other species.<!--TrendMD 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