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 […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Canadians on Conscientious Objection, Trudeau Jr., and Annexing Canada
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) draws attention, once again, to the bioethicist’s revisionist deployment of the notion of “conscientious objection.” Indeed, the post is designed to bolster my problematization (in Foucault’s sense) of the politically potent way in which bioethicists have mobilized the notion. In my last post of 2024 (here), I […]
Boycott Predatory Journals Now!
The term “predatory” was originally used to describe journals that charge authors high publication fees without providing genuine peer review or editorial services. Beal’s list of “potential predatory journals and publishers” includes titles like British Open Research Publications, which charges $300 to publish research from authors in high-income countries. These journals are also thought to have low editorial standards, […]
AI Ethics in Africa, Sept. 14, 2024, 3pm SAT, Online
A-day Virtual Colloquium on AI ETHICS IN AFRICA September 14, 2024 15:00/3 pm (South Africa Time) and 14:00/2 pm (Nigeria Time) Description In recent years, there has been a rapid development in Artificial intelligence (AI). Some of these developments include smartphones, factory arms, autonomous cars, AI wristwatches, ChatGPT4, griefbots, robot surgeons, and robot lawyers. This […]
Special Issue of Canadian Journal of Disability Studies on MAiD (vol. 13, no. 2, 2024)
I am very happy to inform you that Canadian Journal of Disability Studies (CJDS) has published a special issue on the theme “Medical Assistance in Dying; Resistance in Canada”. The issue comprises testimonials of many of the leading theorists and activists who publicly organize against MAiD and the very real dangers that the eugenic policies […]
Picard, Propaganda, and How the Mainstream Media Helps Bioethicists Help Shape the Eugenic Agenda in Canada
In the week following the publication of his book (his only book), Neglected No More, journalist André Picard was interviewed by co-host Adrienne Arsenault on a segment of The National, a nightly news program of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). During the course of the interview, Arsenault asked Picard why he wrote a book about […]
Capitalist Elites Are Capturing Higher Education: Where Are the Critics?
Philosophers need to speak up about the capture of philosophy by capitalist elites, with the help of corporate shills in the profession. The term “elite capture” is used by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò to describe “how political projects can be hijacked in principle or in effect by the well-positioned and resourced,” as well as “how public […]
Transhumanism is Eugenics for Educated White Liberals
Transhumanism as “newgenics” Vice just published an article on how “prominent AI philosopher and ‘father’ of longtermism,” Nick Bostrom, “sent very racist email to a 90s philosophy listserv.” Bostrom “said that ‘Blacks are more stupid than whites,’ adding, ‘I like that sentence and think it is true,’ and used a racial slur.” The article mentions that the […]
Solidarity with CUPE and Other Unions
BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY positions itself in SOLIDARITY with CUPE education workers and all other unions and workers in Canada who are under attack from neoliberal governments that use legislative tactics like the bill that the Doug Ford Government of Ontario passed on Thursday. The passage of Bill 28 is a violation of the most fundamental rights […]
Notes on the Limits of Philosophical Discourse About Abortion
I suppose it was somewhat predictable that various so-called “analytic” philosophers would continue to uncritically accept and promulgate the arguments that liberal feminists (including liberal feminist philosophers) have made about “choice” and “personal autonomy” with respect to abortion. These arguments are very friendly with neoliberal ideas about the mobility of capital which outstrips national borders […]
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