“I have read almost all of your interviews and they are always wonderful. … I am really looking forward to the next installment of Dialogues on Disability.” — Adrian Piper “… a major contribution to our understanding of the field and the people in it.” — Vanessa Wills “I’ve learned so much about ableism in philosophy […]
REMINDER: CFP: Feminist Re-readings of Foucault, Hybrid, Nov. 7, 2025 (deadline: Jun. 18, 2025)
Since the 1980s, Michel Foucault’s legacy in feminist theory and practice has been the subject of sustained and critical debate. His analyses of power, subjectivation, biopolitics, and governmentality have opened up fertile conceptual avenues for thinking about gender, sex, and sexuality. Yet they have also prompted significant critique: the absence of a theory of patriarchy, […]
More on Snyder, Shore, and Stanley Go to Toronto
I encourage readers/listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY who have followed discussions around these events to watch/listen to the captioned video (linked below) that Timothy Snyder made and posted to his Substack today. In the video, Snyder identifies and responds to several criticisms that many commentators have made about him and Marci Shore since the public announcement […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hiring Practices and Dirty Laundry
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) takes its inspiration from events that transpired on Daily Nous during the past week. For through a series of comments there, Paul Raymont, “Canadian Post-Doc,” and I made evident to the international readership of Daily Nous that Canadian philosophy departments give preference in hiring to American and […]
What Feminism is This?
In various posts here at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY and in various publications, including “Disaster Ableism, Epistemologies of Crisis, and the Mystique of Bioethics” (my chapter in The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy), I have identified and elaborated the ways in which a culture of eugenics circulates within and animates Canadian philosophy departments. Hiring and promotion practices, course […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Vanessa Wills
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-second instalment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philosophers and post to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for […]
Spinoza and Feminism: Seminar with Hasana Sharp, Zoom, Jun. 14, 2025, at 17:00 BST/12:00pm EST
Saturday June 14th, 17:00 BST/12:00pm ESTSee this page for details: https://culturepowerpolitics.org/from-marx-to-spinoza-affect-ideology-materiality/ This seminar is part of the series From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality, convened by Andrew Goffey, Jason Read and Jeremy Gilbert, hosted by Culture, Power, Politics. The seminar will be held on Zoom, is free, and open to all. The link will be sent out […]
CEASEFIRE NOW!
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The Latinx Philosophy Reader
Readings include discussions of what it is like to be perceived as undocumented, ethical quagmires affecting those who interpret for their family members, the difficulty of pursuing career success without compromising one’s cultural identity and values, the nature of citizenship, disputes about labels, the significance of language, and debates about the nature of Latinx identity.
The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability – 30%Off!
Are you in the northern hemisphere and pondering what else to read/listen to this summer? Are you already fretting about what reading materials to assign to your classes in the Fall? No worries. We got you. Let us recommend that you relax and enjoy the many treasures that await you in the pages of The […]
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