I want to remind readers/listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY that I am now a coeditor of FOUCAULT STUDIES which has recently become publishing partners with Penn Press. The journal aims to incorporate more transgressive and progressive work on Foucault and disability! So, submit your awesome Foucauldian analyses of disability to us! Put plainly, I was brought […]
Techno-fascists are Ruining the World: Get Mad
In this post, I want to reiterate an argument from my paper on LLMs and disaster ableism and emphasize that philosophers must stop discussing technology in isolation from techno-fascism, the prevailing social order. The Western mode of technological development has allowed techno-fascists like Elon Musk to ascend to a position of unchecked autocratic power, from which they […]
Crip-pessimism: The Future of Disability Justice?
The following is the script for my presentation at St. Louis University on 01/31/2025 at 2pm. My slides with alt text can be found here: “The true philosophy of history thus consists in the insight that, in spite of all these endless changes and their chaos and confusion, we yet always have before us only […]
Strawsonian Responsibility and the Capacities Criterion: Three Critiques from the Margins
The following is the script for my presentation at the Eastern APA on 01/11/2025. This is a revised version of an earlier presentation, edited to focus on a common foundation of Strawson’s exempted categories: the capacities criterion, which states that adult neurotypical human beings are exclusively or canonically morally responsible. The special issue of Feminist Philosophy […]
Capitalism, Crisis, & Chronic Fatigue: UnKoch My Philosophy Department for Disability Justice
The following is the script for my presentation for the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 5 conference on Wednesday, December 11th at 14:50 GMT. “If we’re going to give a lot of money, we’ll make darn sure they spend it in a way that goes along with our intent. And if they make a wrong turn […]
La Filosofía es interdisciplinaria
Desafortunadamente, ahora veo menos interdisciplina en mi quehacer de investigación diario del que veía hace veinte años, digamos. En esa época, todas las discusiones estaban (o, por lo menos, se sabía que debían estar) actualizada a los desarrollos científicos relevantes a su área. Esto ha desaparecido.
CFA: 2025 Latinx Philosophy Conference, Penn State/Online, May 1-2, 2025 (deadline: Dec. 25, 2024)
2025 LATINX PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE May 1, 2025 – May 2, 2025 Penn State University, University Park PA DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: December 25, 2024 Keynote Speakers Linda Martín Alcoff, Hunter College Aliosha Barranco Lopez, Bowdoin College This conference will be hosted in a hybrid format. Accepted presenters can choose to participate in person or virtually. We […]
Becoming Black
In the first pages of his autobiography, Darcus Beese, former president of Island Records, writes about growing up Black in mid Twentieth Century London. “Generally, it was a non-issue – he writes –; until it became an issue.” (p. 28) “Sometimes I’d be out on the street with a group of mates and a white […]
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. […]
CFA: Neurodiversity, Autism, ASD, and Other Categories in Psychiatry and Mental Health, Tilburg/Online, Dec. 16, 2024 (deadline: Oct. 23, 2024)
We invite submissions of abstracts (~250-500 words) on any of the following or broadly related topics: What should we mean by “neurodiversity”? What is the relationship between the categories “neurodiversity,” “autism” and “ASD”? Why are these categories useful? What are their limitations? What do we know about the mechanisms, developmental trajectory, phenomenology, and social attitudes […]
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