No One Will Ever Know What It’s Like to Be a Ghost (working title) explores our conceptions of disability, sexuality, spectatorship, captivity and the medical gaze. Building on two essays published in The Derivative (Beirut Art Center) and the LARB Quarterly (Los Angeles Review of Books), the essays explore the relationship between disability and shame, anesthesia and experience, the place of a non-productive body in labor theory, the role of language in recognition and the sacralization of the body in theological thought.
Salma Shamel is a media scholar, writer and artist. She is a PhD candidate at the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.
