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provides up-to-date information and cutting-edge critical analysis of biopolitical asymmetries and other mechanisms and effects of power in philosophy and beyond

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Why Do Disability Bioethicists and Feminist Bioethicists Sustain the Status Quo of the Apparatus of Disability?

This past weekend, I wrote a comment on a Twitter thread according to which disability bioethicists extend the biopolitical normalization of the apparatus of disability rather than challenge it, sustaining the status quo. It would have been more astute for me to have written, as I have in a few places (including here), that disability […]

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    • La Estrategia de los Malos Modales según Alejandra Vitale
    • El valor de las emociones negativas
    • Relativism of Distance
    • On Lakatosian philosophy of science, based on a recent talk by Atocha Aliseda
    • The Latinx Philosophy Reader 
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    • What does interdisciplinarity mean? Philosophy Casting Call podcast season 3
    • Call for Podcast Guests
    • Embodied Subjectivities in the Philippine Context
    • Philosophy Casting Call podcast: s02e06 A Transformative Practice w/Jimena Solé
    • Philosophy Casting Call Podcast s02e05: Gatekeeping, Class, and Applied Epistemology w/Louise Durham
  • Melinda C. Hall's avatar Melinda C. Hall
    • CFA: Social Ontology 2023 (Deadline: January 30, 2023)
    • Bioethics has Always Been Eugenic
    • CFA: Mellon Post-Doc in Food Studies and Higher Education (Deadline: June 15, 2021)
    • Call For Proposals: Florida Prisons in Uncertain Times, Virtual Conference, Apr. 9-10, 2021 (extended deadline: Jan. 15, 2021)
    • Call For Proposals: Florida Prisons in Uncertain Times, Virtual Conference, Apr. 9-10, 2021 (deadline: Dec. 7, 2020)
  • Mich Ciurria's avatar Mich Ciurria
    • UnKoch My Philosophy Department: Reject Billionaire Donations for Disability Justice!
    • The APA’s Gaslighting Letter on Palestine
    • Canadian Philosophy Departments Can Provide Refuge to Fascism’s Scapegoats 
    • Disability and Moral Responsibility in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Disability Studies
    • Techno-fascists are Ruining the World: Get Mad 
  • shelleytremain's avatar shelleytremain
    • Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDisSocCh6), Unapologetically Online, Jan. 28-30, 2026: Final Program and Registration!
    • Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Emily R. Douglas
    • CFP: The Discourse of Michel Foucault (deadline: December 31, 2025)
    • Feminist Philosophy of Climate Change: Climate Change Adaptation Through the Feminist Kaleidoscope, February to May, Online
    • Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

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