| Sumario: | A crip metaphysics reveals disability as a contested site for the (un)making of spacetime, a dynamic condition of possibility for spatiotemporality. Following the lead of Denise Ferreira da Silva (2022), Smilges understands metaphysics as an inquiry into the matter of relationality: how our understanding of the world's physical properties affects the ways we can be with one another in and through difference. A crip metaphysics, building on the work of Margaret Price (2024) and Kris McDaniel (2017), channels queer critique to illuminate how disability operates through a series of exteriorized relations. By attending to these relations when it feels as though the world is coming apart, it becomes easier to glimpse how they underpin our world as it is. Neither a metaphysics of disability nor a study of the disabled body through space and time, crip metaphysics is, more forcefully, an attunement to the queer function of disability as a metaphysical grammar, a language through which spatiotemporal relations can be articulated.
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