Dear Feminist Comrades, If you wanted to submit to philoSOPHIA 2023 but missed the deadline, you’re in luck! The deadline for proposal submissions has been extended to January 1. Please see the Call for Proposals below. Please feel free to contact Elisabeth (epaquet1@uncc.edu), Andrea (apitts5@uncc.edu), or myself, Lauren Guilmette (lguilmette@elon.edu), with questions. Call For Proposals: philoSOPHIA 16th […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, December 21, 2022, at 8 a.m. ET
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 “I’ve learned so much from Shelley Lynn Tremain’s Dialogues on Disability through the years (and found out about so much exciting work being done by disabled […]
Feedback on Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 3 #PhiDisSocCh3
As readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY will know, from Tuesday to Friday of last week, the third edition of Philosophy, Disability and Social Change — Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 3 #PhiDisSocCh3 — took place online. The conference was a huge success with radical, innovative, insightful, and provocative presentations and discussions over the course […]
Countdown to Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 3 (#PhiDisSocCh3), Zoom/Online, Dec. 6-9, 2022!
Here at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY we are very happy because Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 3 – #PhiDisSocCh3 – is only a little over a week away! Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 3 (#PhiDisSocCh3) will take place December 6-8, 13:00-18:20 GMT/8:00-13:20 EST/5-10:20 PST and Dec. 9 13:00-19:00 GMT/8:00-14:00 EST/5:00-11:00 PST exclusively online. The conference, which is […]
Hirji and the Naturalization of Oppression
Features of the methodology of analytic philosophy that, according to Tina Fernandes Botts, render it inadequate for work in critical philosophical work on race and racism can likewise be recognized in analytic philosophy of disability. My argument is that these features of analytic philosophy render it inadequate for the articulation of a conception of disability […]
BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on Mastodon
As the previous post indicated, we are still here! We wouldn’t leave you! Nevertheless, you can now follow BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on Mastodon at @sltremain@zirk.us And you can also find us on Twitter (at least for now) here: https://twitter.com/biopoliticalph And join our Facebook group BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY!
We Haven’t Gone Anywhere!
Are you wondering where to spend your surfing time now that you’ve left Twitter? Are you wondering where you will now find out about cutting-edge biopolitical analyses in philosophy? Are you worried about how you can stay in the loop? Come here and stay a while! We’re still here and we’re still ad-free, still as […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Robert Chapman
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the ninety-second 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 discussion with disabled philosophers […]
Bioethics (De)Mystified: A Foucauldian Argument For Why Bioethics Must Be Abolished
In “Bioethics as a Technology of Government,” the fifth chapter of Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, I assert that bioethics emerged as a technology of government to resolve the problem that the production of disability poses for the neoliberal management of societies (Tremain 2017, pp. 159-202). In particular, disability is constituted as a problem […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 at 8:00am ET
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 “I’ve learned so much from Shelley Lynn Tremain’s Dialogues on Disability through the years (and found out about so much exciting work being done by disabled […]
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