On April 6, I will give a keynote address (via Zoom) entitled “Philosophy of Disability: The Difference That It Makes” to the Dimensions of Difference Conference at Beacon College, in Leesburg, Florida. The organizer of the conference is Zachary Isrow and the other keynote speaker at the conference will be Robert Chapman. Next month’s interview […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Undoing Ableism in Scholarship on Foucault
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) draws attention to the marginalization of Foucauldian scholarship on disability and the continuing absence of critical philosophical work on disability in Foucault scholarship–both lacunae whose constitution I have worked to ameliorate–as well as highlights some of the initiatives to redress this exclusion in which allies in Foucault […]
New (Year’s) Update on Special Issue of FPQ on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy
I have finished adjudicating abstracts submitted for the special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy,” an issue that will be published in 2026 to commemorate the centennial of Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Close to forty abstracts/proposals were submitted to be considered for the issue. I was very […]
CFA: Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches, A Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (deadline: Dec. 18, 2024)
This CFA invites abstracts of 750 words (max.) for a peer-reviewed special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches.” The issue will be published in 2026 to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Accepted abstracts must be developed to articles […]
Disability and Technology?
Some readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY might be interested to read/listen to the pre-publication version of my chapter “Disability and Technology? No, Disability as Technology,” which is forthcoming in Technology and Equality, edited by Sven-Ove Hansson and Colleen Murphy, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2025, pp. 77-90. You will find the pre-publication version of my chapter […]
(Updated) CFA: Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches, A Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (deadline: Dec. 18, 2024)
This CFA invites abstracts of 750 words (max.) for a peer-reviewed special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches.” The issue will be published in 2026 to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Accepted abstracts must be developed to articles […]
Disabling Bioethics: Notes Toward An Abolitionist Genealogy
I am putting the finishing touches on “Disabling Bioethics: Notes Toward An Abolitionist Genealogy,” my contribution to Genealogy: A Genealogy, edited by Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson and Daniele Lorenzini. (Columbia University Press, 2025). I have copied below the pre-copyedited version of the first section of the chapter which appears under the heading “Conceptual Needs of the Argument […]
CFA: Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches, A Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (deadline: Dec. 18, 2024)
This CFA invites abstracts of 750 words (max.) for a peer-reviewed special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches.” The issue will be published in 2026 to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Accepted abstracts must be developed to articles […]
CFA: Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches, A Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (deadline: Dec. 18, 2024)
This CFA invites abstracts of 750 words (max.) for a peer-reviewed special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches.” The issue will be published in 2026 to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Accepted abstracts must be developed to articles […]
Ableist Language and Other Everyday Assaults on Disabled People
This return to a post of January 2019 is a reminder that the use of ableist language is not merely about a certain choice of words but rather produces (and reproduces) certain ableist ontologies and epistemologies. Some philosophers and theorists of disability continue to employ the ableist term people with disabilities which has been dubbed […]
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