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Canadian Universities Set Up Secret Network to Crack Down on Student Pro-Palestine Demonstrators
The Breach has published an illuminating article about the secret network that Canadian universities set up and surveillance in which they engaged to crack down on student pro-Palestine demonstrators. Here is an excerpt from the article at The Breach: To find details about how your university was involved in the Network and its operations, go […]
From Bioethics to AI Ethics: A Genealogy of Philosophical Sell-Outs
The history of professional philosophy is largely a history of, to use a technical term, sell-outs, people who use their mastery of argumentation and rarefied jargon to defend the rich and powerful: colonizers, fascists, and capitalists, amongst other “moral parasites” (as some non-Western philosophers put it). Just as the victors write history, the victors write philosophy […]
Liberation at the End of Usefulness: On the Intersections of Disability, Animality, and Earth
Our amazing BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY blogger, disabled philosopher Mich Ciurria, has co-edited an inter/transdisciplinary collection entitled Liberation at the End of Usefulness: On the Intersections of Disability, Animality, and Earth with Amanda Williams and Nathan Poirier. The book is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan and is due out at the end of 2026. The book now has […]
(Draft) Introduction to Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy
On September 1 (or thereabouts), “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches,” the special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly that I have guest-edited to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926, will be published! I’m thrilled with the contents of the issue and eager to share them with you. So, … below […]
Whither Foucault? Or, Another Lacuna in Canadian Philosophy Departments
In various posts here on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, I have pointed out that prospective disabled graduate students who want to study philosophy of disability/critical disability theory should not expect to do so in any informed and comprehensive way in a Canadian philosophy department. Liberal bioethics has occupied the corner of what can be said about disability […]
Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 7 #PhiDisSocCh7, Jan. 27-29, 2027, 9:30am-4:00pm ET (Unapologetically and Defiantly Online)
The next edition of the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series–Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 7– will take place January 27-29, 2027. The conference will be supported by and run under the auspices of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY and the Center for Ethics at University of Central Florida. The conference will take place entirely online. No […]
3 Things I Don’t Want to Read Today
As of this morning, approximately 860 wildfires were burning/were out of control/had burned across Canada. As of this morning, approximately 160 wildfires were burning/were out of control/had burned across northern Ontario alone. Entire towns have been destroyed. Many Indigenous communities and First Nations have been displaced (again), their members have lost everything.
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Damion Scott
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and thirty-sixth 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 […]
How Foucault Changed My Life (Guest Post by Daniele Lorenzini)
HOW FOUCAULT CHANGED MY LIFE By DANIELE LORENZINI [Description of photo below: Daniele, who has short dark hair, a beard, and mustache, stands in front of a wall with his arms crossed in front of him. He is wearing a long-sleeved shirt with buttons and a watch with a large face.] I first encountered the […]
The Foucauldian Mind — Out Later This Month! Pre-order It Now!
In February of this year, I wrote: Facebook is buzzing in anticipation of the publication of The Foucauldian Mind in September to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth. Edited by the illustrious Daniele Lorenzini, this landmark text has 44 chapters written by important scholars of Foucault’s work. I am delighted to be in their company […]
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