Our new open book will revolve around the tenuous concept of crime (as a limit) in light of: – the lives and works of artists & philosophers subjected to criminalisation/persecution – or who happened to become artists/philosophers as a result of criminalisation/persecution – or also the motives found in their works that will help us […]
CFP: A Philosophy of Resistance (deadline: Jul. 31, 2025)
Resistance as a response to structure has been—and will be—an answer as long as structural systems, power dynamics, social frameworks, and institutional frameworks govern bodies. Scholars like Mbembe hint at the lack of possible resistance from the living dead in his notion of Necropolitics. Giorgio Agamben discusses the impossibilities of resistance with states of bare life in Homo […]
CFP: Ramones and Philosophy-Working Title (deadline: Jul. 26, 2025)
Ramones and Philosophy: Edited By: Christopher M. Innes Abstracts of essays are requested on the 1970s to 1990s American punk rock band the Ramones. Essays will become part of chapters in an edited collection titled Ramones and Philosophy (working title). I am aiming for a publication date of December, 2026. The Ramones are having their half century anniversary this […]
CFP: Decolonization and Global Justice, Hybrid, Jan. 22-24, 2026 **deadline extended to Jul. 15, 2025**
Decolonization & Global Justice22nd, 23rd, 24th of January, 2026 University of OregonEugene, Oregon Call For Participation Decolonization and Global Justice will be a three-day, transdisciplinary conference that brings together decolonial, postcolonial, anticolonial, Indigenous and anti-imperial feminist perspectives on contemporary global crises. We invite critical interventions against ongoing injustices, such as extractivism and exploitation in the Global South, […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Barnes, Self-Importance, and Epistemic Oppression
It’s hard to believe that Elizabeth Barnes continues to position herself as a credible authority with respect to critical philosophical work on disability and even philosophy of disability more formulaically defined. But here we are. In a contribution to a series of summer guest posts at Daily Nous, that is, Barnes has done exactly that. […]
Forthcoming Publication: “Disabling Bioethics: Notes Toward an Abolitionist Genealogy of Bioethics”
Here is some additional summer reading/listening for avid fans of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. The essay that appears below is forthcoming as a chapter in Genealogy: A Genealogy, edited by Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson and Daniele Lorenzini. Since my writing on disability is often appropriated without attribution or proper citation to me (not by you, dear fan/reader/listener!), I am […]
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 […]
What Canadian Philosophers Won’t Do
The post below originally appeared on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY in April 2023 and is as pertinent now as it was back then. In this regard, consider its claims together with claims made in recent posts here and here. _________________________________________________________________________ Someone could easily come up with a host of things that Canadian feminist philosophers would, predictably, refuse […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 8 am 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 “… 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 […]
Everything American Is More; Even Gender
Everything American is more: more interesting, more special, more problematic, more controversial, more important, more urgent, more radical, more insightful, more progressive, more invested, more pertinent, more attention-grabbing, more useful, more instructive, more informed. So it should surprise no one that the participation of American philosopher Alex Byrne in the production of “Treatment of Pediatric […]
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