If you have been reading or listening to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY since at least earlier this year, you will know that my previous posts about nursing homes and COVID-19 (here, here, and here) helped to expose the terrible situation in these institutions with respect to the pandemic in particular and drew attention to the institutionalization of […]
Biopolitics and Coronavirus, or Don't Forget Foucault (How Could We?)
An excerpt from the essay “Biopolitics and Coronavirus, or Don’t Forget Foucault” by Felipe Demetri: “What the coronavirus epidemic shows us is more the strength of Michel Foucault’s explanatory scheme than the current necro-thanatopolitical strain of interpretations. We all know that Foucault saw biopower as a series of events, from theoretical ones to concrete practices, […]
The Aesthetics and Politics of Depression
In Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, I call for a conceptual revolution with respect to disability, arguing that disability is an apparatus of force relations rather than a natural human attribute, biological difference, personal characteristic, or property of individuals. In order to denaturalize and politicize disability in this way, I examine the problematization (as […]
Marx and Philosophy Review of Books
The Marx and Philosophy Review of Books publishes online reviews of books in the area of Marxism and philosophy interpreted very broadly as regard both ‘Marxism’ and ‘philosophy’. Material appearing in The Marx and Philosophy Review of Books may be reproduced for non-commercial use provided proper credit is given to the author and The Marx and Philosophy Review of […]
CFP: Putting the “Social” In Social Justice: Equality, Equity and Feasibility, Concordia University, Mar. 13-15, 2020 (deadline: Feb. 15, 2020)
Concordia University’s graduate student philosophy association invites submissions for its 2020 graduate student conference. The conference will be held on March 13-15 at Concordia University (Montreal, QC). The topic of the conference is social justice. Keynote speakers: Carol C. Gould (CUNY) and Samantha Brennan (Guelph) We are seeking papers that address topics such as equality, […]
Paper Phones and Anti-Capitalism
Have you heard of the paper phone? It works with Android via Google, and replaces your phone for the day (or longer). First, using the software, you select what elements you’d like to print from your phone. Once the sheet is printed – let’s say you decide to include the day’s weather, your primary contacts, […]
CFP: Bio-communism – Reconceptualizing Communism in the Age of Biopolitics, Warsaw, Jan. 25-26, 2020 (deadline: Dec. 1, 2019)
What could bio-communism be? Perhaps it is a form of communism where the workers, freed from the tyranny of capitalism has reconnected with their species-being (Gattungswesen)? Or rather a form of communism which aims to emancipate not only human but also non-human workers from their bonds? Maybe it is neither, and instead, it is a […]
CFP: Sexual Violence As Structural Violence: Feminist Visions Of Transformative Justice, UCLA, Mar. 6, 2020 (deadline: Oct. 27, 2019)
30TH ANNUAL THINKING GENDER STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE MARCH 6, 2020, CARNESALE COMMONS, UCLA FEATURING KEYNOTE PANELIST MARIAME KABA Founding Director, Project NIA Researcher in Residence, Barnard Center for Research on Women DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2019 AT 11:59 PM PDT ALL PROPOSALS MUST BE SUBMITTED ONLINE: CSW.UCLA.EDU/TG20_CFP The UCLA Center for the Study […]
CFP: Understanding the Family: Life – Love – Labor, Manchester, Sept. 9-11, 2019 (deadline: Jun. 1, 2019)
MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory 9th-11thSeptember 2019, Manchester, UK Convenor: Dr. Marina Martinez Mateo (Goethe University Frankfurt) marina.martinezmateo@normativeorders.net What is the family? What is its function and position in liberalism and – more specifically – in current late capitalism? Some claim that the family stands in opposition to capitalism, while others emphasize their direct connectedness. […]
CFP: Political Philosophy and the Future of Capitalism, Waseda University, June 15-17, 2019 (deadline: Mar. 15, 2019)
A workshop on the theme Political Philosophy and the Future of Capitalism will be held at Waseda University, in Tokyo, from June 15 to 17, 2019. Confirmed speakers:Chiara Cordelli (University of Chicago)Martin O’Neill (University of York)Lucas Stanczyk (Harvard University) Questions about capitalism and its many discontents have acquired a new urgency in recent years. Economic […]
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