Welcome to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY! BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY aims to provide the philosophical community with a forum for critical analysis of biopolitical asymmetries and other mechanisms and effects of power in philosophy and beyond. The BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY insignia in the banner depicts a dandelion, suggesting life, networks, systems, and change (photo credit: James Niland). BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY will […]
Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDisSocCh6): Day Three
SCHEDULE FOR TODAY’S EVENTS: (All times shown are in EST) Friday, January 30, 2026 10:00am-10:05am Welcome to Day Three of #PhiDisSocCh6 Shelley Lynn Tremain (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY) 10:05am-12:05pm Panel: Anarchist and Marxist Influences and Fascist Confrontations Robert Chapman (Durham), “Boy Scout Fascism: Health Fascism in the Political Philosophy of Robert Baden-Powell” Nic Cottone (Michigan State), “Capitalism, […]
Techno-capitalism, Crisis Epistemology, and Disaster Ableism: How (not) to Respond to Generative AI in Higher education (My presentation @ #PhiDisSocCh6)
Introduction Techno-capitalism is a social system dominated by technology-driven capital, in which technological development is a primary vehicle for wealth concentration. Professors are currently trying to navigate the incursion of techno-capitalism into higher education through the widespread adoption of generative AI platforms like ChatGPT. In a recent article for Current Affairs, Professor Ronald Purser argues that AI is […]
Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDisSocCh6): Day Two
SCHEDULE FOR TODAY’S EVENTS: (All times shown are in EST) Thursday, January 29, 2026 10:00am-10:05am Welcome to Day Two of #PhiDisSocCh6 Shelley Lynn Tremain (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY) 10:05am-12:05pm Panel: On the Birth of Foucault and the Abnormal Will Conway (Stony Brook), “’To Kill the Vanquished’: Rousseau at the Threshold of Biopolitics” Stephanie Jenkins (Oregon State), “On […]
Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDisSocCh6): Day One
SCHEDULE FOR TODAY’S EVENTS: (All times shown are in EST) Wednesday, January 28, 2026 10:00am-10:10am Welcome to #PhiDisSocCh6 Shelley Lynn Tremain (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY) and Melinda Hall (Central Florida) 10:10am-12:10pm Panel: The Politics of Identity and Identification Caroline Christoff (Muskingum), “The Normativity of Neurodiversity: How Atypical Behavior Impacts Identity” August Gorman (Oakland), “Am I the Problem? […]
Gattaca and the Impossibility of Eliminating Disability
Pictured above is the Gattaca movie poster, featuring three characters in a triangular arrangement. In the foreground is Ethan Hawke (playing Vincent), a white man with short, dark brown hair. To the left is Uma Thurman (Irene), a white woman with straight blonde hair in a ponytail. To the right is Jude Law (Jerome), a […]
About the Ableism That Conditions Your Criticisms of Zoom (Again)
Due to the APA’s recent decision (go here and here) to eliminate online participation in its conferences and to the number of feminist and other philosophy conferences that have reverted to exclusionary in-person-only formats, I’ve reposted (from June 2022) this explanation of how ableism undergirds the veneration and continued production of in-person-only philosophy conferences and […]
Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDisSocCh6), Unapologetically Online, Jan. 28-30, 2026, 10am ET-4pm ET
The Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series is, by many accounts, the best, the most exciting, the most informative, the most progressive, and generally the most important event on the philosopher’s calendar. This year’s edition of the conference series promises to be as vital as, if not even more vital than, past editions of […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and thirtieth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philosophers and post to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for […]
The APA Is a Neoliberal Institution: On the Great Gatsby Conference Model
In October of 2025, I criticized the APA for its gaslighting letter on Palestine, which mischaracterized the genocide against Palestinians as a “war in Gaza.” By erasing the genocide, the APA also erased the mass disablement of Palestinians, the colonization of their land, and the use of patriarchal violence against Palestinian women and gender minorities. This type […]
APA Tells Disabled Philosophers to F*ck Off (In a Manner of Speaking)
Earlier this week, the American Philosophical Association (APA) announced that it would discontinue its 2+1 experiment, the “experiment” whereby one of its three annual conferences would be held online and hence be accessible to disabled philosophers and other groups of philosophers otherwise excluded from the association’s events. You can read the stated rationale for this […]
BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 