In “Bioethics as a Technology of Government,” the fifth chapter of Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, I assert that bioethics emerged as a technology of government to resolve the problem that the production of disability poses for the neoliberal management of societies (Tremain 2017, pp. 159-202). In particular, disability is constituted as a problem […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 at 8:00am 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 […]
Solidarity with CUPE and Other Unions
BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY positions itself in SOLIDARITY with CUPE education workers and all other unions and workers in Canada who are under attack from neoliberal governments that use legislative tactics like the bill that the Doug Ford Government of Ontario passed on Thursday. The passage of Bill 28 is a violation of the most fundamental rights […]
CFP: Feminist Afterlives of Colonialism, University of Oregon/Zoom, May 12-13, 2023 (deadline: Jan. 15, 2023)
Feminist Afterlives of Colonialism is a two-day, interdisciplinary conference on the topic of critical feminist approaches to the coloniality of gender that will be held at the University of Oregon on May 12th – 13th, 2023. Kenote Speaker: TBA As we navigate the myriad crises and possibilities interspersed throughout the world and our many worlds, we […]
Beautyism as Ableist Eugenics… and the Mystique of “Choice Feminism”
Introduction I recently came across this article on Vice.com asking filmmakers to “stop making hot actors play normal people.” The author indicts filmmakers for casting too few “normal” people. I think that this is a much-needed critique, but it lacks philosophical nuance, which I intend to provide here. My analysis will explore the harms of mainstream beauty […]
Registration NOW OPEN for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 3 (#PhiDisSocCh3), Dec. 6-9, Online!
I am very happy to let you know that registration is NOW OPEN for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 3 (#PhiDisSocCh3), the third edition of the pathbreaking conference that I co-organize with Jonathan Wolff under the auspices of the Alfred Landecker Programme at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Registration is free and […]
Black Skin, White Masks at 70, Wake Forest University/Zoom, Nov. 3, 4:00pm ET
Join African American Studies at Wake Forest University for “Black Skin, White Masks at 70,” a public conversation with Lewis Gordon (Philosophy, University of Connecticut). The event takes place on Thursday, November 3, 2022, at 4:00pm ET via Zoom. You can register for this Zoom webinar here.
Against Exotic Philosophy, Again
When we approach other people’s thoughts, especially those that might prima facie to be very different from us, culturally, geographically, historically, etc., there is always the temptation to think that trying to fit their thought into our current epistemological, aesthetic, ontological, etc. categories would require forcing it into a conceptual straitjacket and that instead one […]
Registration for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 3 (#PhiDiscSocCh3)
I had hoped that registration would, by now, be open for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 3 (#PhiDisSocCh3). With the first two editions of the conference, we advertised the final program and opened registration in September. This year, however, the University of Oxford/Blavatnik School of Government has been conducting an overhaul of its website and […]
CFP: Southern Movements: Transnational Feminist Praxis and Philosophical Interventions, philoSOPHIA 16th Annual Conference, UNC-Charlotte/Online, Jun. 1-3, 2023 (deadline: Dec. 15, 2022)
Keynotes: Ochy Curiel, Jasbir K. Puar, Stephanie Rivera Berruz, and Lindsey Stewart. This year, we invite contributions that promote a broad understanding of feminist theorizing and organizing through an examination of both regional and diasporic relations between the U.S. South and the Global South, including relations among African, Indigenous, Caribbean, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Asian […]
