‘radical gleaning’: Doing Prac Crip

This article develops what I call ‘prac crip’ as an innovative methodology to perform on the page the scholarly realities of working, living and writing with the disability of repetitive strain injury. Prac crip is a prac crit of crips that complicates liberatory crip criticism. It shows how repetitive strain injury changes an approach to practical criticism, but also, by association with ‘crit’, how practices of practical criticism with repetitive strain injury shift some key uses of the ‘crip’. Critical of this mode of cripping as well as cripical, prac crip demonstrates the emancipatory limits of practising crip criticism for those crips the work also hurts in the act. Peter Larkin’s fascination with gleaning runs parallel to the rise of lean. To glean and its derivatives have a ‘distinctive presence’ in his lexis from Pastoral Advert (1988) to Seven Leaf Sermons (2018), a thirty-year period during which lean management has become increasingly global. The article traces through Larkin the eco-politically crucial relationships between the common right of gathering after harvest known as gleaning, historically, a practice for disabled people; the gesture of leaning; and the genealogy of global lean management technologies in the packing of lean meat. The essay explores how disability is an integral part of how its readings are produced, as well as addressing the predicament that work-related upper limb disorders, which are driven by lean managed environments, continue to be driven by writing against lean managed environments.


Prac Crip
Kaushi, please could you help me type this text as it appears on the page? 1 Peter Larkin's poetry works against the patterns Dragon NaturallySpeaking's voice recognition data tends to find natural, so it's really hard to transcribe it without typing'.
'Thank you -where you have put in space with spaces, please could you take the spaces out and press enter, so the spacing will stay the same if the amount of space in the margins changes?' 'I tried that but then there's too much space'. This is what I call doing prac crip. 4 A methodologically innovative attempt to pinpoint and perform what I'm doing when I close read these gleanerly roots of arboreal limbs whilst I cannot lean on my own.
She was initially having difficulties typing due to repetitive strain injury and then started using voice recognising software called as Dragon.
She was previously active and enjoyed her allotment, cooking and working hard. 5 She is now adjusting to pacing herself, correcting her posture and lengthy physiotherapy exercises.
She reported recently being discriminated against for having repetitive strain injury.
Prac crip is a prac crit of crips that complicates key liberatory crip criticism. 6 Prac crip explores how disability is an integral part of how these readings are produced, as well as addressing the predicament that work-related upper limb disorders, which are driven by lean managed environments, continue to be driven by writing against lean managed environments, no matter how emancipatory the theory.  12 To its proponents, 'lean production is "lean" because it uses less of everything': 'it does more and more with less and less'. 13 'I'm afraid they are still yet to confirm if funds are in place for us to work together next week'.
Go to sleep.

'too severely rotated by what located surface'
Reach up. Lean the left arm on the desk, stretching the shoulder slightly. Using the extra height, raise the right arm onto the desk. Press the pencil on the middle of the ring finger of the right hand. Lean to the left. Hook the left foot under the right thigh.
Hold on. Lean the head to the left, and curve the neck towards the right hand. Hold on.
Rub the right hand. Hold.
On examination she has a slight body habitus. 14  Prac crip shows that writing with and on these adapted, assisted critical labours still simultaneously produces the disability it destabilizes and politicizes. And except when vocally controlling a computer leads language to dysphonia with a harsh rasp. Or, in the words of a common Dragon NaturallySpeaking error message:

Peter and the Dragon
'you may continue dictating but some speech may become unavailable'.
Prac crip unveils the unavailable.
'Sorry Peter for the error in the quotation. I use voice recognition software to control my computer: it heard your "rule" as "role", and it's a challenge to proofread dictation because our training as readers, and our writing technologies are largely designed to detect typographical errors, rather than the whole phonetic replacement of words'.
Prac crip also avails the too-veilable. Prac crip is a disabled person using assistive technology to research their readings and getting stuck. Getting stuck on 'human'. 46 Submissions should be made electronically through this website. 47

'radical gleaning along crush inquests into the current arrest'
The speech engine returned the following error In a slip of a Dragon's tongue Ruth, as well as roots, surfaces in Roots Surfacing Horizon.
Prac crip notes that some typographical errors have been not silently corrected. 48 Roots radically reroutes the biblical gleaner Ruth. 49  In British history, gleaning was often permitted only for disabled people. 51 But this connection might go back to the root. Ruth, who asks for more than what she can traditionally glean by right, could have asked not out of flirtation, but from obliviousness that social conventions around gleaning were or should be any different; could have clung to Naomi as much for familiarity as familiar devotion. 52 Her preservation through perseveration in gleaning, rather than a sign of her poverty and oppression, as her socio-economic situation is the same as Orpah's who did not glean, is a sign of an autistic woman having the relative, temporary, freedom to act on some of her needs for stimulus, before that 'zest' is arrested. 53 Ruth is not just uprooted by seeking refuge in lean times, she is 'as strange as rooted': not just a stranger, but odd; oddly attached and set in her ways; and, by comparison with Orpah, more than arrested by grief. Ruth is my scriptural Autist sister crip with an interest in gleaning, recognized after millennia. 54 Prac crip with 'a rhetoric that tics' radically criticises how that historic gleaning right sticks in practices of only supporting the right of crips that might not practically be able to take it. 55 I therefore make the reasonable request for reasonable adjustments under the terms of the Equality Act 2010.
I therefore make the reasonable request for reasonable adjustments under the terms of the Equality Act 2010.
I therefore make the reasonable request for reasonable adjustments under the terms of the Equality Act 2010.
In Larkin's phrase there is violence. The gleaning that is radical because a root does it can only move by 'inquests' because the agricultural practice of gleaning is most commonly about gathering 'what'? wheat, and so stems, and as such for gleaning to be something done by a root as part of its 'radical' or rootness, requires the root to stem itself -cut itself off, cut in 2 itself. 56 There are no thoughts of suicide and no history of self-harm or harm to others.
I therefore make 57 I therefore make Repetitive. Strain.
Prac crip critically does not pretend its own crip poetics only engender 'pleasure' in order for their 'claiming of crip to be embodied with criticality', when the material practices behind creating its almost compulsory rhetoric of eroticism are a toxic crush that mostly gets me further from getting off. 58 And the tenancy being terminated.

'along crush'
Prac crip cultivates disruption of canonical crip theory's silent textual production.
Alison Kafer writes, 'I have a hard time even typing "cultivating disability" because it is almost impossible to imagine'. 62 I have a hard time even typing "cultivating disability" and dictating it with Dragon.
A gleaning root travels along a 'crush' that is 'a variety of fault in coal'; the geological faultlines of those previously petrified. 63 Petrified into the pattern of roots that have gone before; 'forced out by squeezing or pressing'. 64 'Radical gleaning' also travels along the "crush" that is the space managed by the current structures of animal agriculture, 'a funnel-shaped fenced passage along which cattle, sheep, or horses are driven for branding, dipping, etc'. 65 Et cetera: radical gleaning is driven along by the structures and strictures of lean meat production.
Prac crip shows that Kaushika has no aspiration to become 'cow shaker' but to be 'Kaushi care'. Kaushi has seen Cowspiracy. 66 She worries that her future employers after vet school may make her work on the wrong side of history. We worry that Dragon NaturallySpeaking finds her name so hard to understand. 67 Lean thinking is founded upon lean meat. 68 As Naomi Shukin argues, the Fordist production line, the model for Toyota, is 'premised on the ulterior logistics of animal disassembly that it technologically replicates and advantageously forgets'. 69 To Prac crip tells how for cartilage to be crushed, those driving animals after the crushes of animal agriculture are also crushed by repetitive strain injuries. 73 For the technologies of the packing houses, extracted into lean management and spread across the world, crush. 74 Repetitive strain injury beyond the slaughterhouse is an extension of the disassembly line, an embodiment of being leaned upon too heavily. 75  Full body muscle spasms hard wiring everything that was hurting before into a horrible brain pain circuit coming on relentlessly every 6 seconds.
Distal to the dorsal distils to the dorsal this ictus this ictus this ictus. This myoclonic ictus. This singe this seethe this sear.
'Crush' is also a 'crackle, as wood thats readie to breake' (Cotgrave); 'to crackle, crash, clatter'. 82 He talked to me about Ruth and the roots of gleaning while he did it.

She could arrest the investigations at any point…if she so wished.
A root cannot glean, nor Dragon's tongue speak without a glitch.
Strain: 'A stream or flow of impassioned or ungoverned language'. 83

Natalie reports a voracious appetite
In this little off the shoulder hospital number

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