Culinary Injustice by Axel Arturo Barceló Aspeitia It is not rare to find people who make statements such as “people who dislike reggaetón are being racists and classists” (Rivera-Rideau 2005). In the early eighties, many people claimed that anyone who chanted “disco sucks” was racist and homophobic (Hubbs 2007, Lawrence 2006, Hughes 1994); and some […]
CFP: Phi Magazine’s Sex Issue (deadline: Jan. 24, 2020)
CALLING ALL PHILOSOPHY STUDENTS Submissions are officially open for Φ Magazine’s Sex Issue, the second in our three part Sin Series. Explore the theme at will, explore sex in all it’s sensual, political and revolutionary guises. We take all kinds of submissions: prose, photography, poetry, painting, opinion pieces, film or music – you make it […]
CFP: Leonard Cohen, An Interdisciplinary Conference, Maynooth University, Jun. 12-13, 2020 (deadline: Dec. 1, 2019)
Religion, teachers, women, drugs, the road, fame, money… nothing gets me high and offers relief from the suffering like blackening pages, writing. – Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen’s body of work challenges and bridges many oppositions. A poet and novelist of significant talent, he chose a career as a songwriter and musical performer in order to […]
Aesthetics and Race: Special Issue of Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (Vol. 77, No. 4)
The Fall 2019 issue of Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism is a special issue on Aesthetics and Race. The contributors to this pathbreaking issue are: Paul C. Taylor, Charles Peterson, A. W. Eaton, Nkiru Nzegwu, Ivan Gaskell, Christopher Jenkins, Mariana Otega, Falguni A. Sheth, Meilinn Chinn, Dan Flory, Jeremy Fried, Monique Roelofs, Alia Al-Saji, […]
Mystify: Michael Hutchence and Disability
Two of Melinda’s first posts on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY are film reviews, a review of both the depiction of (so-called) mental illness and use of blindness as metaphor in Bird Box and a review of representations of disability in Bird Box, Hush, and A Quiet Place. These reviews build upon Melinda’s earlier work on depictions of […]
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