Welcome to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

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 […]

Aristotelian Proto-racism and the Western Invention of the Zoological Other: Lessons from Maxi Glamour’s Genealogy

When I worked at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, I had the privileged of meeting Maxi Glamour, a philosopher, digital creator, activist, and mythical genderless fairy creature of many talents. I encourage readers to follow their blog and social media accounts if you don’t already.  Recently, Glamour published a brief and illuminating genealogy of racism in philosophy, which […]

Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at 8 a.m.

“I have read almost all of your interviews and they are always wonderful. …  I am really looking forward to the next installment of Dialogues on Disability.” — Adrian Piper “… a major contribution to our understanding of the field and the people in it.”  — Vanessa Wills “I’ve learned so much about ableism in philosophy […]

CFP Homenaje a Nora Rabotnikof

Releer a Nora Rabotnikof Septiembre 24 y 25, 2026 Desde la última vez que nos reunimos para recordar a Nora Rabotnikof, se vio la necesidad de volver a leer sus textos, con una mirada crítica y constructiva. Sus trabajos reflejan su pensamiento siempre claro y profundo. Sin embargo, ella misma pensaba que quedaba mucho por decir sobre […]

The Eugenic Canadian Context and the Future of the NDP in Canada

Last evening, I attended a campaign event for Avi Lewis that took place in Hamilton, Canada (where I live). Lewis is running to be the new leader of the New Democratic Party in Canada, which was virtually obliterated in the federal election last Spring when many Canadians chose to “strategically” vote for the Liberals and […]

First Symposium on Indigenous Philosophy across the Americas: Epistemologies and Ontologies outside the Settler Colonial Hegemony, U Penn/Online, Mar. 20, 2026

Symposium Description How we as human persons understand and relate to the world has long been fodder for contention.  In the pursuit of absolute, universal truths, the occidental philosophical canon has found itself in a rigid dogmatism that casts out the roles of spirituality, land, and the-more-than-human-world in the formation of our understanding of reality. […]

Iran Resources at Weaving Our Worlds

From Weaving Our Worlds: This resource list was produced in March 2026, less than one week after the US and Zionist entity launched attacks against Iran — manufactured through lies, orientalist propaganda, sanctions, regime-change rhetoric, and monarchist fantasies — in the middle of diplomatic negotiations and killing over 1000 people (and counting) and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. These imperialist attacks come […]

Robert Chapman on Gramsci, Madness, and Fascism

Gramsci on Madness and Fascism: Hegemony and Sanist Slurs By Robert Chapman Mad and neurodivergent people on the left often find ourselves in purportedly inclusive spaces where ableist and sanist language nonetheless circulates casually, most often as a way of dismissing political opponents. Words like mad, insane, or moronic are deployed as if they were […]