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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 […]
Solidarity with CUPE and Other Unions
BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY positions itself in SOLIDARITY with CUPE education workers and all other unions and workers in Canada who are under attack from neoliberal governments that use legislative tactics like the bill that the Doug Ford Government of Ontario passed on Thursday. The passage of Bill 28 is a violation of the most fundamental rights […]
CFP: Feminist Afterlives of Colonialism, University of Oregon/Zoom, May 12-13, 2023 (deadline: Jan. 15, 2023)
Feminist Afterlives of Colonialism is a two-day, interdisciplinary conference on the topic of critical feminist approaches to the coloniality of gender that will be held at the University of Oregon on May 12th – 13th, 2023. Kenote Speaker: TBA As we navigate the myriad crises and possibilities interspersed throughout the world and our many worlds, we […]
Registration NOW OPEN for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 3 (#PhiDisSocCh3), Dec. 6-9, Online!
I am very happy to let you know that registration is NOW OPEN for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 3 (#PhiDisSocCh3), the third edition of the pathbreaking conference that I co-organize with Jonathan Wolff under the auspices of the Alfred Landecker Programme at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Registration is free and […]
Black Skin, White Masks at 70, Wake Forest University/Zoom, Nov. 3, 4:00pm ET
Join African American Studies at Wake Forest University for “Black Skin, White Masks at 70,” a public conversation with Lewis Gordon (Philosophy, University of Connecticut). The event takes place on Thursday, November 3, 2022, at 4:00pm ET via Zoom. You can register for this Zoom webinar here.
Registration for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 3 (#PhiDiscSocCh3)
I had hoped that registration would, by now, be open for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 3 (#PhiDisSocCh3). With the first two editions of the conference, we advertised the final program and opened registration in September. This year, however, the University of Oxford/Blavatnik School of Government has been conducting an overhaul of its website and […]
