Pictured above is the Gattaca movie poster, featuring three characters in a triangular arrangement. In the foreground is Ethan Hawke (playing Vincent), a white man with short, dark brown hair. To the left is Uma Thurman (Irene), a white woman with straight blonde hair in a ponytail. To the right is Jude Law (Jerome), a […]
Unbecoming Persons: The Rise and Demise of the Modern Moral Self by Ladelle McWhorter
Unbecoming Persons: The Rise and Demise of the Modern Moral Self, Ladelle McWhorter’s fascinating genealogical study of the notion of personhood, is hot off the press. Here is a description of this wonderful new book: A damning genealogy of modern personhood and a bold vision for a new ethics rooted in belonging rather than individuality. […]
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 […]
CFP: The Palgrave Handbook on Frantz Fanon (deadline: Feb. 1, 2025)
The Palgrave Handbook on Frantz Fanon welcomes proposals related to the Afro-Martinican psychiatrist, intellectual, and revolutionary Frantz Omar Fanon. The handbook will provide students and scholars across many fields with a compendium of excellent scholarship that will enrich their engagements with Fanon’s life, work, and ideas. We seek to offer new interpretations that challenge old […]
Lecture: “Why Epistemic Decolonisation in Africa?” by Veli Mitova, Zoom, Jul. 4, 2024
The Department of Philosophy at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) cordially invites you to the 1st Philosophy Lecture Series. Topic: Why Epistemic Decolonisation in Africa? Date: Thursday, 4th July 2024 Time: 11.00 am WAT Speaker: Professor Veli Mitova, Director, African Center for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Register in […]
YOGA-ANTICOLONIAL PHILOSOPHY: An Overview (Guest post)
YOGA-ANTICOLONIAL PHILOSOPHY: An Overview By Shyam Ranganathan Who Is This Book For? I wrote Yoga—Anticolonial Philosophy: An Action Focused Guide to Practice (Singing Dragon 2024) for students of Yoga and philosophy in the broad sense. It is written for people who have a practice of “yoga” or teach yoga, or are interested in the history […]
CFP: Women in Indian Thought: Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary (deadline: May 31, 2024)
Three of us (Muzaffar Ali, Savitribai phule Pune University: Richa Shukla, IIT Bhubaneswar; Mansi Rathour, OP Jindal Global University) will be co-editing a volume, Women in Indian Thought: Ancient, Modern and Contemporary. The main idea behind co-editing this volume is to discuss and bring to the fore previously neglected voices of Indian women thinkers and philosophers. We invite […]
CFP: Compositing Man: Worldly-ecologies & Life/Death Affirming Perspectives (deadline: Mar. 15, 2024)
Compositing Man: Worldly-ecologies & Life/Death Affirming PerspectivesGuest Editors: Xalli Zúñiga & Stephanie Rivera BerruzphiloSOPHIA: Journal of Transcontinental Philosophy Feminism The colonial dynamics by which global capitalism asserts its dominance, establishing itself as the Earth’s prevailing economic system, give rise to metabolic rifts that tamper with the relations that make life possible. Through colonization, global capitalism […]
Capitalist Elites Are Capturing Higher Education: Where Are the Critics?
Philosophers need to speak up about the capture of philosophy by capitalist elites, with the help of corporate shills in the profession. The term “elite capture” is used by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò to describe “how political projects can be hijacked in principle or in effect by the well-positioned and resourced,” as well as “how public […]
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 […]
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