Resistance as a response to structure has been—and will be—an answer as long as structural systems, power dynamics, social frameworks, and institutional frameworks govern bodies. Scholars like Mbembe hint at the lack of possible resistance from the living dead in his notion of Necropolitics. Giorgio Agamben discusses the impossibilities of resistance with states of bare life in Homo […]
Waseda Workshop on Sexuality: Japanese and International Perspectives, Online, Oct. 12-13, 2024
Waseda Workshop on Sexuality: Japanese and International Perspectives October 12 – 13 *Held online. Please register for ZOOM below. Official language is English October 12 (Sat), 2024: 10:00-17:20 (Japan Standard Time) https://list-waseda-jp.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LzbNkJAmTJ-t9gKRlH_93Q (Registration for Day 1. Please register now) 9:30 – 10:00 Welcome Reception 10:00 – 10:10 Introduction (Thomas Spiegel) 10:10 – 11:30 Kasumi Nakamura […]
Ableist Language and Other Everyday Assaults on Disabled People
This return to a post of January 2019 is a reminder that the use of ableist language is not merely about a certain choice of words but rather produces (and reproduces) certain ableist ontologies and epistemologies. Some philosophers and theorists of disability continue to employ the ableist term people with disabilities which has been dubbed […]
Race in the Modern World II: Decolonisation and the Future of Race, Sept. 2-3, 2024, Macquarie University/Online
The Macquarie University Ethics & Agency Research Centre is organising a two-day interdisciplinary workshop on decolonisation and the future of race. This is a hybrid workshop (both in-person and online). Date: September 2nd & 3rd Location: Macquarie University, Michael Kirby Building (17 Wally’s Walk), Moot Court (Level 2). Link to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/race-in-the-modern-world-part-2-decolonisation-and-the-future-of-race-tickets-989987538377?aff=oddtdtcreator In this workshop, we bring together a diverse range of scholars to […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Ableist, Racist, and Classist Job Postings
The quote of the week for this week (though it’s only Thursday) concerns ableist, racist, and classist constraints on linguistic diversity and variation in philosophy. In her latest BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY post, Mich Ciurria draws critical attention to some of the various ways in which journal referees constrain and “police” linguistic diversity in philosophy, including by […]
Happy New Year and a Surprise About the Bloomsbury Collection!
Happy New Year. In several months, The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, which I have edited and anthologized, will be released. I am tremendously pleased with the collection which comprises twenty-six bold chapters. The book promises to be a significant intervention in philosophy. To give you some idea of what to expect later this […]
On miscontextualizing history
we can interpret historical texts either as saying something particular about their concrete context of creation, or something more general about more abstract philosophical problems – which therefore would still be relevant to philosophical discussions todays, but it would be a mistake to interpret those texts directly in our context as if they had been written today
A Tribute to Charles Mills, University of Amsterdam, Jun. 16-17, 2022
The two-day symposium at the University of Amsterdam pays tribute to the work of Charles Mills, who died last autumn at the age of 70. He was supposed to hold the Spinoza Chair this year. Confirmed speakers include Karwan Fatah-Black (Leiden), Nancy Jouwe (Utrecht), Anya Topolski (Nijmegen), Wayne Modest (Amsterdam), Jamila Mascat (Utrecht), Naomi Zack […]
Should we stop talking of race, gender, etc.?
Does rejecting the metaphysical reality of races committees us to “resist a policy of providing support to black-owned businesses, or any other race-based prioritization”, presumably, because we would be committed to reject as false the race-talk behind such measures.
Kant and Racial Discrimination, Ruhr- University Bochum, Feb. 24-25, 2022
Kant’s discriminatory statements and implications in some of his works, such as on physical geography, anthropology, and especially in his continuous theory of race, might shock those who are rather acquainted with or inspired by his prominent egalitarian universalism in moral and, in part, legal philosophy. Kant’s defense of racial hierarchy, his condoning of race-based […]
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