My colleague Angeles Eraña an me have recently seen our chapter on the Zapatista emancipatory project and tzotzil ontology finally in print, now that The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language is finally out. Last week, we were invited to discuss the chapter with Autumn Scarlett Harrison, Ana Carolina Zamora Buen Abad and Janice Dowel […]
The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language
The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language, edited by Ernie Lepore and Luvell Anderson, is now available! Description of the book’s cover: A cartoon image of a half-open mouth next to several speech balloons with the names of the editors on the top right corner. Underneath the image, the title of the book on a […]
Foucault as the First Disabled Philosopher of Disability (My Love Letter to Foucault)
If you are a reader/follower/scholar/fan of Michel Foucault, you no doubt know that 2024 is the 40th anniversary of Foucault’s death on June 25, 1984. Even if you are not a reader/follower/scholar/fan of Foucault but you are connected on social media in certain ways or at least spend a certain amount of your time there, […]
Symposium on Empire of Normality – A Response to Commentaries on Empire of Normality by Robert Chapman
Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2023, 204pp. (ISBN: 978-0-7453-4866-7)* ________________________________________________ I’m grateful to Shelley Tremain for organizing this symposium. I’m also grateful to Mich Ciurria, Jane Dryden, Johnathan Flowers, and Sofia Jeppsson – all scholars that I have long admired – for their careful engagements with Empire of Normality. I’m […]
Symposium on Empire of Normality – Money Talks and Moral Responsibility Walks by Sofia Jeppsson
Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2023, 204pp. (ISBN: 978-0-7453-4866-7)* ________________________________________________ In Robert Chapman’s Empire of Normality, they lay out a Marxist theory of psychiatric and neuropsychiatric disabilities. Industrialization and modern capitalism made a huge difference for society’s view on disability. This is not to say that disability, or equivalent concepts, […]
Symposium on Empire of Normality – Some Intersectional Concerns about Empire of Normality by Johnathan Flowers
Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2023, 204pp. (ISBN: 978-0-7453-4866-7)* ________________________________________________ If I were to write the title for Chapman’s book, I would call it Empire of Normality: Capitalism and the Rise of the Pathology Paradigm, because the primary aim of the text seems to be not to articulate a thoroughgoing […]
Symposium on Empire of Normality – Reflections on Robert Chapman’s Empire of Normality by Jane Dryden
Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2023, 204pp. (ISBN: 978-0-7453-4866-7)* ________________________________________________ Robert Chapman’s new book provides a Marxist historical analysis of the development of the “Empire of Normality” alongside the development of capitalism. The “Empire of Normality” is “an apparatus of material relations, social practices, scientific research programmes, bureaucratic mechanisms, economic […]
Symposium on Empire of Normality – Empire of Normality: Correcting the Historical Record on Eugenic Capitalism by Mich Ciurria
Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2023, 204pp. (ISBN: 978-0-7453-4866-7)* ________________________________________________ Everybody should read Robert Chapman’s groundbreaking critique of neurocapitalism, Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. This book fills a gaping hole in the literature by explaining the relationship between neurodiversity and capital from past to present. In my symposium contribution, […]
Introduction to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY’S Symposium on Robert Chapman’s Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2023, 204pp. (ISBN: 978-0-7453-4866-7) _____________________________________________ This week, BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY is very pleased to bring you a symposium on Robert Chapman’s new book, Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism, which was published by Pluto Press in November 2023. Immediately upon its publication, the book began […]
“Revolutionizing Responsibility,” Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, Vol. 10, nos. 1/2, 2024 – Guest edited by Mich Ciurria
Mich Ciurria’s double special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, whose theme is “Revolutionizing Responsibility,” has now been published (online). The issue comprises thirteen peer-reviewed articles (including my article “When Moral Responsibility Theory Met My Philosophy of Disability”) plus an introduction by Mich. The full double issue is here: https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/issue/view/1686 Many congratulations to Mich for this […]
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