Canadian Philosophy Departments Can Provide Refuge to Fascism’s Scapegoats 

The US is a rising fascist regime. Migrant workers are being sent to international concentration camps. Trump is threatening to send addicts and Mad People to modern-day “lunatic asylums.” RFK Jr. wants to send “troubled teens” to “wellness farms,” resonant of the Willowbrooks of the past. Brian Kllmeade from Fox News advocated for the mass extermination of long-term unhoused people by […]

In-Person Philosophy Conferences as a Mask for Academic Imperialism

In an article published at CBC News on Friday, Natalie Stechyson writes the following: some employers in both the private and public sector are mandating that many workers have to come back full time.  As a growing number of Canadians once again find themselves cramming public transit and clogging highways to get to their workplaces, you might be wondering: […]

Disability and Moral Responsibility in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Disability Studies

Friends will know that my main areas of specialization are moral responsibility and critical disability theory. The following is a draft of my forthcoming entry, “Disability and Moral Responsibility,” for the Philosophy and Theory of Disability area of The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies. This pathbreaking project is being curated by Shelley Tremain for the OUP’s Digital Reference Publications. […]

FOUCAULT STUDIES

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 […]

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.