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, […]
Disabling Bioethics: Notes Toward An Abolitionist Genealogy
I am putting the finishing touches on “Disabling Bioethics: Notes Toward An Abolitionist Genealogy,” my contribution to Genealogy: A Genealogy, edited by Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson and Daniele Lorenzini. (Columbia University Press, 2025). I have copied below the pre-copyedited version of the first section of the chapter which appears under the heading “Conceptual Needs of the Argument […]
30% Off The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability During This Back-To-School Sale!
Now is your chance to pick up copies of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, the cutting-edge resource for your teaching and research, at an additional discount. Assign the book to your students! Until October 6, 11:59pm ET, Bloomsbury Publishers is offering a 30% discount on its books in its back-to-school sale, including The […]
Appeals to Merit and Luck as Forms of Structural Gaslighting
Two longstanding concerns of analytic liberal political philosophy and ethics are how to justify egalitarianism and how a theory of egalitarianism should deal with so-called human variation. These concerns have given rise to questions about what people are owed and what they deserve. Are social inequalities between individuals justified if they occur due to differences […]
Forthcoming Publication, “Foucault: The Premier Disabled Philosopher of Disability (My Love Letter to Foucault),” Now Online!
In previous BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY posts (e.g., here), I shared excerpts of my forthcoming chapter, “Foucault: The Premier Disabled Philosopher of Disability (My Love Letter to Foucault),” which will appear in The Foucauldian Mind, edited by Daniele Lorenzini (Routledge, 2026). As I indicated in the previous posts, October 15, 2026, will mark the centennial anniversary of […]
Special Issue of Canadian Journal of Disability Studies on MAiD (vol. 13, no. 2, 2024)
I am very happy to inform you that Canadian Journal of Disability Studies (CJDS) has published a special issue on the theme “Medical Assistance in Dying; Resistance in Canada”. The issue comprises testimonials of many of the leading theorists and activists who publicly organize against MAiD and the very real dangers that the eugenic policies […]
Contributors to Philosophy and Theory of Disability in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Disability Studies
I have completed the recruitment phase of the editing process for the Philosophy and Theory of Disability Area of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Disability Studies, the digital resource that I posted about previously. I am extremely happy about the roster of contributors that I compiled. Please find copied below the names of contributors to the […]
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Now is your chance to pick up copies of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, the cutting-edge resource for your teaching and research, at an additional discount. Assign the book to your students! From today until October 6, 11:59pm ET, Bloomsbury Publishers is offering a 30% discount on its books in its back-to-school sale. […]
Upholding Michel Foucault’s History (My Love Letter to Foucault Continued)
As I recently pointed out on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, October 15, 2026, will mark the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth, with plans underway to commemorate Foucault in a variety of journal issues, conferences, workshops, edited collections, and monographs. As I noted in the previous post, I will contribute to some of these memorials. In the […]
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