Cripping transdisciplinarity

This article argues for the mutual relevance of disabled and crip critique to theories of transdisciplinarity in the context of questions about multimodal aesthetics and accessibility. Recapitulating the author’s preliminary search, using the methods of analytic philosophy, for answers to these questions, the essay turns to the notion of ‘cripping’ – interrogating received categories of the normative and non-normative using the tools of disability-based critique – to imagine how, through a cripped version of transdisciplinarity, new practical and theoretical possibilities for imagining access in the arts might emerge.