Susan Wendell, in her book “The rejected body,” writes about how we might become able to realize that “people with disabilities have experiences, by virtue of their disabilities, which non-disabled people do not have, and which are sources of knowledge that is not directly accessible to non-disabled people” (1998, 68f). This struck me deeply, since my auto-immune disease, which remained undiagnosed for more than 20 years, has impacted my attention to lived experience in fundamental ways. This attention to lived experience – especially the experience of intensification, of how, for example, a change in temperature or oxygen saturation in the atmosphere can knock me off my feet – has become the driver and focus of my research. The shifting in and out of focus of a body that is constantly struggling, changing, adapting, fascinates me. Can we understand disabilities, as Wendell invites us to, as forms of difference that open up the possibilities of new forms of knowledge? Can we all open up towards those alien parts and processes in and of our bodies that don’t fit into the ideal of the productive, flexible body of late capitalism?