Against Interpretosis: Deleuze, Disability, and Difference

In A Thousand Plateaus, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari describe interpretosis as the fundamental neurosis of mankind. The article explores the metaphor of faciality as a way of understanding interpretosis and its relationship to the concept of disability; it considers how poetics, as a dynamism that breaks the inertia of language habits, challenges interpretosis to enable transgressive cultural narratives for people facialized as disabled.