Philosophers have often equated “modern man” with the “man of reason.” In post-apocalyptic imagination, “becoming crip” pleasurably exceeds such reduction of human personhood to the "masterful subject." Theologian Sharon Betcher explores "crip" as a theological map of hope and deep ecological pleasure – pleasures beyond those available with the reign of capital and its alliance with theological holism. The full title of her talk is “On ‘Eaarth’ as in Heaven?”: En/Crip/ting Desire, Developing a Taste for Life in the Anthropocene.
Sharon V. Betcher, Ph.D., is an independent scholar, writer, crip philosopher and would-be farmer living on Whidbey Island, Wash. She is the author of Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh: A Secular Theology for Global Cities and Spirit and the Politics of Disablement.
This event is part of The Future of Being Human, an initiative of the McDevitt Core Professorship and McDevitt Center. In light of ecological crisis, rapid technological change, and widespread social alienation, what is the future of being human? Join a multidisciplinary conversation about what it means to be human in the 21st century.
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