If you are searching for new material in philosophy of disability to add to your course syllabus or need some inspiration, motivation, and profoundly fresh ideas and arguments for your own research, ponder no more. Below, I have copied the links to all the captioned videos of five years of the Philosophy, Disability and Social […]
Reviewers for “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches,” Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
As readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY may recall, I am guest editing a special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches,” which will commemorate the one hundred-year anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Late in September, I will begin to receive the […]
Feminist Philosophy of Disability in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Disability Studies
Faithful readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY may recall that I am curating the Philosophy and Theory of Disability area of The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies that OUP is developing for its Digital Reference Publications. Some of you may be interested in the draft of my entry/article for the collections which covers Feminist […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Barnes, Self-Importance, and Epistemic Oppression
It’s hard to believe that Elizabeth Barnes continues to position herself as a credible authority with respect to critical philosophical work on disability and even philosophy of disability more formulaically defined. But here we are. In a contribution to a series of summer guest posts at Daily Nous, that is, Barnes has done exactly that. […]
Forthcoming Publication: “Disabling Bioethics: Notes Toward an Abolitionist Genealogy of Bioethics”
Here is some additional summer reading/listening for avid fans of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. The essay that appears below is forthcoming as a chapter in Genealogy: A Genealogy, edited by Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson and Daniele Lorenzini. Since my writing on disability is often appropriated without attribution or proper citation to me (not by you, dear fan/reader/listener!), I am […]
Press Release for New Zine: Being Trans in Philosophy
‘We Are Not Trans in a Theoretical Way’: 22 Trans Philosophers and Philosopher-Parents of Trans Kids Speak Out on Academic Philosophy’s Impact on Trans Lives in the Discipline and Beyond Being trans is not a controversial idea but a lived reality. A new zine released today collects 22 first-personal accounts of what it is actually […]
The Latinx Philosophy Reader
Readings include discussions of what it is like to be perceived as undocumented, ethical quagmires affecting those who interpret for their family members, the difficulty of pursuing career success without compromising one’s cultural identity and values, the nature of citizenship, disputes about labels, the significance of language, and debates about the nature of Latinx identity.
CFP: The Aesthetics of Disaster (deadline: 30 Sept. 2025)
Special Editor: Lucia Morawska (Richmond, The American International University in London) “The Polish Journal of Aesthetics” Volume 77 (2/2026) Submission deadline: 30 September 2025 The special issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, titled “The Aesthetics of Disaster,” aims to examine the intricate relationship between art, tragedy, and human experience in the contemporary global context. Inspired by Susan Sontag’s […]
Philosophy of Disability: The Difference That It Makes, Beacon College, Apr. 6, 2025
[The text below comprises the keynote address that I gave (via Zoom) to the Dimensions of Difference Conference at Beacon College yesterday. The conference was organized by Professor Zachary Isrow who teaches in the Humanities and Philosophy Department at Beacon College.] ________________________________________________________________________________ Philosophy of Disability: The Difference that It Makes The presentation that I will […]
Who Is the Subject of the Left?
At the outset of Foucault’s important 1982 interview/text “The Subject and Power,” he provides a sweeping overview of the motivation for his work to that point, making the somewhat astonishing claim that the impetus for his endeavours over 20 years was not (as widely believed) “to analyze the phenomena of power, nor to elaborate the […]
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