New (Year’s) Update on Special Issue of FPQ on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy

I have finished adjudicating abstracts submitted for the special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy,” an issue that will be published in 2026 to commemorate the centennial of Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Close to forty abstracts/proposals were submitted to be considered for the issue. I was very […]

The Call is Coming from Inside the House; Or How Bioethics Has Compromised Philosophy and Philosophers

Bioethics and the neoliberal eugenics that motivates it have thoroughly compromised philosophy and philosophers–politically, institutionally, ethically, and economically. That is to say, the neoliberal effects of bioethics have become so pervasive and insidious in philosophy that the discipline and profession have, in many ways, become extensions of the medico-scientific-industrial complex. Indeed, few philosophy departments (in […]

Ableist (Philosophy of) Language and Why ‘Crip’ Might Not Be the Answer

Earlier this morning, I inadvertently posted a news item on Bluesky that included ableist language–namely, the term tone deaf. The article, which discusses the forms of structural oppression and discrimination that working-class Scottish students at the University of Edinburgh experience, was especially interesting to me given that my maternal ancestors were poor and working-class people […]

Fatness and the Abnormal (Guest post)

Fatness and the Abnormal Kristin Rodier Presentation to Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5, December 13, 2024 I want to thank Shelley Tremain and the conference organizers for inviting me to share my work. Learning about what everyone has been working on has become a highlight of my year. In keeping with Shelley’s advocacy within […]

Mental Illness Stigma and Devaluation of the Relational Self (Guest post)

Mental Illness Stigma and Devaluation of the Relational Self Abigail Gosselin Presentation to Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5, December 12, 2024 Mental illness stigma involves making a negative judgment about someone who has mental illness and marking them as bad or inferior in some way. Mental illness stigma devalues and dehumanizes people in many […]

Prefiguration and the Abolition of Bioethics

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 […]

Corrections to Previous Post (with Apologies to Our Subscribers)

If you receive BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY posts through email and opened the previous post entitled “Meet the New Boss–Same as the Old Boss: Jenkins and Cull on Feminist Metaphysics,” you may have noticed a few (significant) editorial errors in the post. These mistakes have now been corrected in the post (go here). Please consider revisiting the […]

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 […]

CFP: The Palgrave Handbook on Frantz Fanon (deadline: Feb. 1, 2025)

Call For Proposals The Palgrave Handbook on Frantz Fanon will include essays from 30-40 scholars on a variety of topics related to the Afro-Martinican psychiatrist, intellectual, and revolutionary Frantz Omar Fanon. The handbook will provide students and scholars across many fields with a compendium of excellent scholarship that will enrich their engagements with Fanon’s life, […]