This is a kind reminder of the CfP below for a special issue “Azimuth. Philosophical Coordinates in Modern and Contemporary Age” (Issue 1/2026), co-edited by Matteo Santarelli (University of Bologna) and Chiara Montalti (University of Bologna) Theorising Disability and Neurodivergence. Philosophical Foundations and Challenges Disability and neurodivergence have garnered growing interest in philosophy, as evidenced by several essays and […]
Feminist Exclusions and Why You Need This Encyclopedia
My work as editor of the Philosophy and Theory of Disability area of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Disability Studies is winding down. Overall, the experience of putting together this collection of articles has been remarkably valuable. The authors whom I selected and recommended to write for the encyclopedia have produced outstanding pieces on their respective […]
Poster for Feminist Re-readings of Michel Foucault, Paris, 7–8 Nov 2025, Hybrid
Image: The title of the conference in French across the top-half of the poster amidst two multi-coloured outstretched hands. At the bottom of the poster, my name as the keynote speaker and the address of the venue and institutional supporters. The conference program can be found here: https://biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/10/20/feminist-re-readings-of-michel-foucault-hybrid-7-8-nov-2025-sciences-po/
La Estrategia de los Malos Modales según Alejandra Vitale
Desde la perspectiva retórica, el discurso violento (y la violencia en general, pienso yo) activa asociaciones de masculinidad y rebeldía (y juventud) que se espera sean acpetadas como positiva por el público al que van dirigidas, pero también afirma el propio poder de quién violenta: violento, porque puedo, es decir, porque tengo el poder que […]
Feminist Re-readings of Michel Foucault, Hybrid, 7–8 Nov 2025, Sciences Po
DERPs and Their Exclusionary Conferences
It’s a big weekend for DERPs and their conferences. You may recall (as I indicated here) that DERPs is the acronym for Disabled Exclusionary Righteous Philosophers, the term that I coined to refer to philosophers who (apparently without shame) variously organize, attend, participate in, promote, or fund inaccessible– that is, exclusionary–and unsustainable philosophy conferences. Here […]
El valor de las emociones negativas
Forgive me if I’ve shunned so long Your gentle greeting, earth and air! Emily Brontë En tiempos recientes se ha vuelto cada vez mas común, en filosofía de la mente, explorar la hipótesis de que las emociones y afectos que tradicionalmente se consideran negativas como el enojo, la tristeza, aburrimiento, etc. en realidad no lo […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Karin Boxer
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-seventh 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 […]
STAL Seminar: Luvell Anderson, “Theories of Reclamation,” Online, Oct. 27, 2025, 14:30 CET
The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home), an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms from less studied languages, invites you to the first talk of the 2025-2026 academic year, given by Luvell Anderson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and entitled “Theories of Reclamation”. […]
Annette Baier, Michel Foucault, and the Future of Feminist Philosophy
A post on Bluesky drew my attention to Annette Baier’s famous article “Trust and Antitrust,” which appeared in Ethics in 1986. Many feminist philosophers (and others) regard this article as a pivotal contribution to feminist philosophy, ethics, and indeed, feminist ethics. For the longest time, I have questioned why no philosopher, and certainly no (straight?) […]
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