Foucault’s genealogical method is the best approach with which to examine how the subfield of bioethics (1) contributes to the production of the problem of disability (and its naturalized foundation)–that is, contributes to the production of disability as a problem; and (2) is designed to hasten its elimination, that is, to resolve the problem that […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]
Meet the New Boss–Same as the Old Boss: Jenkins and Cull on Feminist Metaphysics
Frieder Vogelmann’s recent article** “Political Epistemology without Apologies” begins in this way: The recent interest in political epistemology seems easy to explain. Its rise to prominence is routinely traced to two events in 2016: the Brexit referendum in the UK and the election of Donald J. Trump as 45th president of the USA (e.g. Hannon & […]
Ten Questions about Disabled People Stemming from This Week’s U.S. Election
Many of my social media friends, most of whom are philosophers or other academics, are postulating the reasons why Trump won this week’s election in the United States. Many of them are also predicting what will unfold in the U.S. henceforth; (almost) invariably these predictions forecast catastrophe, increasing social injustice, hardening of sensibilities to the […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Wednesday): Cressida Heyes on Identity Politics and Disability
This week’s contribution to the quote-of-the-week thread (though it’s only Wednesday) considers the extent to which nondisabled philosophers and nondisabled feminist philosophers in particular will give up their position of dominance with respect to what gets said about disability in philosophy, who gets to say it, and how it gets said. It has been almost […]
Disability and Technology?
Some readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY might be interested to read/listen to the pre-publication version of my chapter “Disability and Technology? No, Disability as Technology,” which is forthcoming in Technology and Equality, edited by Sven-Ove Hansson and Colleen Murphy, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2025, pp. 77-90. You will find the pre-publication version of my chapter […]
Letter to Boycott Israeli Literary Institutions with Link to Add Your Name
From the Palestinian Festival of Literature: October 28, 2024 | More than 1,000 authors, including winners of the Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award have launched a mass boycott of Israeli publishers complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. This is the largest cultural boycott against Israeli institutions in history. […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]
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