Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-second instalment 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 […]
CFA: Disability and Rights: The Possibilities and Limits of Rights Discourse under Neoliberalism, Zoom, 13-14 Jun. UK Time (deadline: 11 Apr., 2025, 5 pm UK Time)
This is a two half-day conference organised by Disability Law and Social Justice Stream of the Socio-Legal Studies Association and Marxism and Disability Network scholars, and kindly funded by the Socio-Legal Studies Association and University of Leicester. The conference will take place online (using the Zoom platform) on: ● Friday, 13th June 2025, 12:30-17:30 BST […]
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 […]
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 […]
Resources for National Truth and Reconciliation Day/Orange Shirt Day, September 30th
GENERAL National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Creating a Climate for Change (First Nations Health Alliance booklet) Lee Maracle on the Impact of Austerity on Indigenous Populations (video) First Nations Child and Family Caring Society Aboriginal People’s Television Network (APTN) Moving to Action: Activating UNDRIP in Canadian Museums (Canadian […]
More on the Referee Crisis: Gatekeeping, Tone Policing, and Linguistic Discrimination
This is part of a 3-part series on the referee crisis in philosophy. You can find the first two posts here and here. Refereeing in the Neoliberal Age In my last two posts, I argued that the referee crisis is related to neoliberalism, a system of exploitation and oppression that confiscates wealth from workers and the poor […]
Elia Nathan Bravo on Witches and Empty Concepts
Elia Nathan Bravo did not believe in witches, not in the classical European sense of a “sorceress with the power to cast curses thanks to a fidelity pact with the devil.” (Nathan Bravo 2002: 122) Even more, she was certain that there were no witches, at least as certain as we are that there are […]
Against Exotic Philosophy, Again
When we approach other people’s thoughts, especially those that might prima facie to be very different from us, culturally, geographically, historically, etc., there is always the temptation to think that trying to fit their thought into our current epistemological, aesthetic, ontological, etc. categories would require forcing it into a conceptual straitjacket and that instead one […]
On miscontextualizing history
we can interpret historical texts either as saying something particular about their concrete context of creation, or something more general about more abstract philosophical problems – which therefore would still be relevant to philosophical discussions todays, but it would be a mistake to interpret those texts directly in our context as if they had been written today
CFP: Transgender India (deadline: Oct. 1, 2020)
Chapters are invited for Transgender India, which examines hijras and sadhins from antiquity to the present, drawing on scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Contributions providing philosophical perspectives are especially encouraged. Chapters may explore a range of Indian transgender identities and experiences—including but not limited to individuals identifying as third gender, MTF, FTM, and nonbinary. A […]
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