Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly: Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches 12 (2/3) 2026

I am very happy to present “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches,” the amazing special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (12 [2/3] 2026) that I have guest edited to commemorate the centennial of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 12 (2/3) 2026: “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches” https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/issue/view/2385 Finally, Foucault: […]

Dinosaurs Got Cancer and Other Mythical Assumptions of Philosophy Bros and Obnoxious Overlords in Philosophy

Daniele Lorenzini’s landmark collection The Foucauldian Mind was published at the end of July. I’m thrilled that my work on disability is included in the collection, not least because the chapters that it comprises, when taken together, comprehensively demonstrate why philosophers should relinquish their appeal to, and dependence on, self-serving claims and outdated assumptions according […]

(My Presentation to) Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6

The sixth edition of the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series that took place this week was outstanding, exceeding the expectations of the organizing team in every aspect. The presentations were amazing, fascinating, provocative, engaging, creative, insightful, mischievous, daring, insurgent. The Q and As were lively, respectful, committed, and concerned. The Chat conversations were […]

Latest Issue of Foucault Studies Is Out!

The Fall 2025 issue of Foucault Studies has been published today. You can find the issue here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55841 Foucault Studies is the only international journal in the English language devoted to the work and influence of Michel Foucault. Since its inception in 2004, it has been publishing top-rate research on or inspired by Foucault entirely open […]

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 […]

Upholding Michel Foucault’s History (My Love Letter to Foucault Continued)

As I recently pointed out on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, October 15, 2026, will mark the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth, with plans underway to commemorate Foucault in a variety of journal issues, conferences, workshops, edited collections, and monographs. As I noted in the previous post, I will contribute to some of these memorials. In the […]

CFP: FOUCAULT’S CONCEPT OF EXPERIENCE (deadline: Dec. 20, 2024)

CALL FOR PAPERS: FOUCAULT’S CONCEPT OF EXPERIENCE Special issue of  PHILOSOPHY TODAY. An International Journal of Contemporary Philosophy Special issue editorsVilde Lid Aavitsland (University of Louisville)Leonhard Riep (Goethe University Frankfurt) Experience is a key concept in Foucault’s work, yet its centrality has long been overlooked. In many of his published works, such as The Order of […]

Toward an Abolitionist Genealogy of Bioethics

In recent years, philosophers have increasingly engaged with each other in passionate discussions about academic freedom in the discipline of philosophy and academia more widely, as well as participated in heated debates with members of the broader public about freedom of speech in society generally. The topics around which the most impassioned discussions and debates […]