This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Paul Lodge
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain, and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and eleventh installment 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 […]
CFP: Black Disability Studies, U of Virginia/Hybrid, Apr. 25, 2025 (deadline: Oct. 15, 2024)
Call for Papers: Black Disability Studies University of Virginia (Hybrid) April 25, 2025 In association with the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies and the University of Virginia, we invite abstracts for a conference on “Black Disability Studies” to be hosted at the Carter G. Woodson Institute on the grounds of […]
How (Feminist) Philosophers in Canada Challenge the Exclusion of Disabled (Feminist) Philosophers in Canadian Philosophy
Decolonising Philosophy Curriculum Toolkit
The Decolonising Philosophy Curriculum Toolkit, a production of SOAS (University of London), has officially launched! The toolkit, which was co-created with students on a paid internship, can be accessed via the project’s website by following the link below: https://www.soas.ac.uk/decolonising-philosophy-curriculum-toolkit
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, at 8 a.m. ET
“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 “I’ve learned so much from Shelley Lynn Tremain’s Dialogues on Disability through the years (and found out about so much exciting work being done by disabled […]
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 […]
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