Canadian Philosophy Departments Can Provide Refuge to Fascism’s Scapegoats 

The US is a rising fascist regime. Migrant workers are being sent to international concentration camps. Trump is threatening to send addicts and Mad People to modern-day “lunatic asylums.” RFK Jr. wants to send “troubled teens” to “wellness farms,” resonant of the Willowbrooks of the past. Brian Kllmeade from Fox News advocated for the mass extermination of long-term unhoused people by […]

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Mich Ciurria

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-fifth 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 […]

Techno-fascists are Ruining the World: Get Mad 

In this post, I want to reiterate an argument from my paper on LLMs and disaster ableism and emphasize that philosophers must stop discussing technology in isolation from techno-fascism, the prevailing social order. The Western mode of technological development has allowed techno-fascists like Elon Musk to ascend to a position of unchecked autocratic power, from which they […]

On Jason Stanley On Fascism and Organizing Inaccessible Conferences

My mother has been in the hospital for the past month, in and out of intensive care; so, my time to post on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY has been constrained. In addition, I have been writing responses to the questions that Robert Chapman and Mich Ciurria pose to me in the interview that they have conducted with […]

CFP: Images of the Rabble, Praktyka Teoretyczna [Theoretical Practice] Special Issue (abstract deadline Nov. 15, 2019)

Praktyka Teoretyczna [Theoretical Practice] is an open access bi-lingual journal hosted in Poland at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. The journal covers a broad array of subjects including political philosophy, history of ideas and social commentary. Currently they are working on a new issue, focusing on the question of rabble and its representations, planned to […]