This week’s quote of the week (though it’s only Thursday) returns us to earlier discussions of MAiD (on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY and here) in which I point out that proponents of this mechanism of eugenics generally hold dated understandings about contemporary forms of power (its character, how it coalesces, how it operates, etc.), assuming facile liberal […]
CFP: The Work and Legacy of Charles W. Mills (deadline: Nov. 1, 2023)
Les Ateliers de l’éthique/The Ethics Forum Special Issue: The Work and Legacy of Charles W. Mills Guest Editors Agnès Berthelot-Raffard (York), Ryoa Chung (Université de Montréal) and Naïma Hamrouni (Chaire de recherche du Canada en éthique féministe, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières). (Revised) deadline for submission 1 Novembre 2023 In the wake of the publication […]
A Note to/About Jason Stanley; And Here Is My Presentation to Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 2
On Twitter recently, I wrote that although Jason Stanley and I share some commonalities, there are differences between us, an observation that he seems to have appreciated. One of the differences between us, I noted, is that I’m dangerous for philosophy and he’s not. (As one nondisabled feminist philosopher put it to me years ago, […]
CFP: Migration, Stability, and Solidarity, Ruhr-University Bochum, Oct. 28-29, 2019 (deadline: Jul. 19, 2019)
Interdisciplinary Conference: Migration, Stability, and Solidarity Ruhr-University Bochum, October 28th and 29th Keynote: Michael Blake (University of Washington, Seattle) The conference will discuss two neglected questions within migration ethics: 1. What is the relation between migration and political stability? 2. How should solidarity be understood when it comes to migration? With respect to […]
CFP: Understanding the Family: Life – Love – Labor, Manchester, Sept. 9-11, 2019 (deadline: Jun. 1, 2019)
MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory 9th-11thSeptember 2019, Manchester, UK Convenor: Dr. Marina Martinez Mateo (Goethe University Frankfurt) marina.martinezmateo@normativeorders.net What is the family? What is its function and position in liberalism and – more specifically – in current late capitalism? Some claim that the family stands in opposition to capitalism, while others emphasize their direct connectedness. […]
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