This post comprises a collection of (most of) my past posts about medically assisted suicide, the eugenic impetus of bioethics, and Bill C-7 in Canada. The posts are arranged chronologically in descending order beginning with the most recent relevant post from May 1.
CFP: Society Must Be Inoculated: COVID-19, Governance, Propaganda, UC-Irvine, May 20, 2022 (deadline: Mar. 11, 2022)
Since COVID-19’s first infection, the virus has mutated. Each expected virological mutation summons increased governmental and medical surveillance, received both positively and suspiciously by the public. The instituted state of exception was most aggressively diagnosed by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Agamben, however, is not alone in theorizing the pandemic. Thinkers like Slavoj Zizek, Jean-Luc […]
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, […]
Reconfiguring Values: A Riposte to Agnes Callard
In Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, I argue that disability is a complex and complicated apparatus of power rather than a personal property, attribute, or difference, as assumed on the individualized and medicalized conceptions of disability that most philosophers (including most philosophers of disability) hold. In order to make this argument, I employ Foucault’s […]
Is “The Right to Die” Racialized Biopolitics?
[This post originally appeared at the Discrimination and Disadvantage blog which is now defunct In one respect, the title of the post was redundant: biopolitics are always racialized.] _________________________________________________ My post earlier in the week drew attention to the imbrication of the sub-field of bioethics in the workings of biopower and neoliberal biopolitics. I noted how biopolitics […]
New Books Network Interview about Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability
Because it is a hot and hazy summer day and we don’t have much initiative to work, I decided to post the interview about Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability that I did last August (it was posted last September) with Dave O’Brien of the New Books Network. As the accompanying blurb for the interview […]
CFP: Terror on Tour 2019: Nothing to Declare, Trinity College Dublin, Sept. 6, 2019 (deadline: Jul. 31, 2019)
Terror on Tour 2019: Nothing to Declare Sept. 6, 2019 – Arts Technology Research Lab (ATRL), Trinity College Dublin TERROR ON TOUR is an international and interdisciplinary network of scholars, artists and activists whose research and work engages with the multiple manifestations of terror in our epoch: from climate change to mass extinction; from the […]
Disabling Normativities, Johannesburg, Oct. 1-3, 2019, Registration Open and Extended CFA (deadline: Aug. 30, 2019)
Registration is now open for the Disabling Normativities Conference that takes place October 1-3, 2019, at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Keynote speakers:•Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos•Dr. Shelley Lynn Tremain•Prof. Andre Keet•Prof. France Winddance Twine Extended Call for Abstracts closing date: 30 August 2019Visit http://www.disablingnormativities.com for more information about registration fee schedule and to register. Follow BIOPOLITICAL […]
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