Troubling Transplant Temporality through Crip Technoscience and a Sensory Aesthetics of Time, Machine, and Health

Taking up technologies that act as a “bridge” to transplant, we explore what the lifeworlds of a transplant patient and their loved ones interacting with these technologies tells us about the temporality of transplantation and the imperative of cure.By engaging with clinical literature and practices, transdisciplinary crip technoscience theorizing, and multimodal, multisensory artistic form, we bring together sick and disabled people’s expertise and diverse ways of knowing that enable a rich and nuanced exploration of transplant time that complicates biomedical expertise while at the same time recognizes its embrace as one with opportunity and potential for care and collaboration. In troubling transplant temporality through crip technoscience and a sensory aesthetics of time, machine, and health, we demonstrate how perspectives often excluded or minimized in acute care offer innovative ways in which to think through the material limitations of taken for granted understandings within transplant settings.