Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove [not only] from our land but from our minds as well – Frantz Fanon Genocide is Disablement To quote Alice Wong from the Disability Visibility Project, “Palestinian liberation is disability justice.” Palestinians are experiencing genocide and “genocide is a mass disabling event and a […]
More on the Referee Crisis: Gatekeeping, Tone Policing, and Linguistic Discrimination
This is part of a 3-part series on the referee crisis in philosophy. You can find the first two posts here and here. Refereeing in the Neoliberal Age In my last two posts, I argued that the referee crisis is related to neoliberalism, a system of exploitation and oppression that confiscates wealth from workers and the poor […]
More on the Referee Crisis, Neoliberalism, & Sad Beige Philosophy (SBP)
This is part of a 3-part series. You can find the first and third posts here and here. In my last post, I wrote about the referee crisis and its relationship to neoliberalism. In short, there’s a backlog of papers in the publication pipeline because there aren’t enough referees to review them. Why aren’t there […]
The Referee Crisis, Neoliberalism, & Sad Beige Philosophy
This is part of a 3-part series. You can find the second and third posts here and here. This post is dedicated to the generous philosofriends who refereed papers for me. Last month, I finished editing a special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on feminist perspectives on moral responsibility, which is (miraculously) scheduled to be published in […]
Capitalist Elites Are Capturing Higher Education: Where Are the Critics?
Philosophers need to speak up about the capture of philosophy by capitalist elites, with the help of corporate shills in the profession. The term “elite capture” is used by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò to describe “how political projects can be hijacked in principle or in effect by the well-positioned and resourced,” as well as “how public […]
A Philosophical Defense of Youth Suffrage
The following is an edited translation of an interview that I gave to Die Tageszeitung, a cooperative-owned German daily newspaper. The interviewer was Valérie Catil. A philosopher on children’s right to vote For the philosopher Mich Ciurria, not letting children vote is a form of discrimination. She demands voting rights from birth. Wochentaz: Dr. Ciurria, the governing parties […]
Nothing about Us without Us: Did Philosophers Get the Memo?
Nothing about Us without US (NAUWU) By now, most people are familiar with the slogan “nothing about us without us” (NAUWU). As a call for disability justice, NAUWU was popularized by disabled activists in the 1990s. The slogan means that nondisabled people should not produce content about disabled people without involving disabled people. As James Charlton says, NAUWU is […]
Disabled People Should Define Disability
The dominant definition of disability in our society is the medical one. On the medical model, a disability is an impairment or functional limitation of an individual’s body. The medical model sees disability as something that should be fixed, cured, or accommodated. It locates the problem in the individual rather than the built environment. The […]
Impostor Syndrome & the False Idol of Intelligence
*I want to thank Meghan Schrader and Neil Levy for commenting on earlier drafts of this post. Neil Levy recently published an interesting take on impostor syndrome, explaining why it’s so common. He says that “pretense is an unavoidable element of coming to occupy a professional role.” So, in a sense, we’re all faking it. I […]
Transhumanism is Eugenics for Educated White Liberals
Transhumanism as “newgenics” Vice just published an article on how “prominent AI philosopher and ‘father’ of longtermism,” Nick Bostrom, “sent very racist email to a 90s philosophy listserv.” Bostrom “said that ‘Blacks are more stupid than whites,’ adding, ‘I like that sentence and think it is true,’ and used a racial slur.” The article mentions that the […]
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