Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2023, 204pp. (ISBN: 978-0-7453-4866-7)* ________________________________________________ In Robert Chapman’s Empire of Normality, they lay out a Marxist theory of psychiatric and neuropsychiatric disabilities. Industrialization and modern capitalism made a huge difference for society’s view on disability. This is not to say that disability, or equivalent concepts, […]
Symposium on Empire of Normality – Some Intersectional Concerns about Empire of Normality by Johnathan Flowers
Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2023, 204pp. (ISBN: 978-0-7453-4866-7)* ________________________________________________ If I were to write the title for Chapman’s book, I would call it Empire of Normality: Capitalism and the Rise of the Pathology Paradigm, because the primary aim of the text seems to be not to articulate a thoroughgoing […]
Symposium on Empire of Normality – Reflections on Robert Chapman’s Empire of Normality by Jane Dryden
Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2023, 204pp. (ISBN: 978-0-7453-4866-7)* ________________________________________________ Robert Chapman’s new book provides a Marxist historical analysis of the development of the “Empire of Normality” alongside the development of capitalism. The “Empire of Normality” is “an apparatus of material relations, social practices, scientific research programmes, bureaucratic mechanisms, economic […]
Symposium on Empire of Normality – Empire of Normality: Correcting the Historical Record on Eugenic Capitalism by Mich Ciurria
Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2023, 204pp. (ISBN: 978-0-7453-4866-7)* ________________________________________________ Everybody should read Robert Chapman’s groundbreaking critique of neurocapitalism, Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. This book fills a gaping hole in the literature by explaining the relationship between neurodiversity and capital from past to present. In my symposium contribution, […]
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