Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2023, 204pp. (ISBN: 978-0-7453-4866-7)* ________________________________________________ I’m grateful to Shelley Tremain for organizing this symposium. I’m also grateful to Mich Ciurria, Jane Dryden, Johnathan Flowers, and Sofia Jeppsson – all scholars that I have long admired – for their careful engagements with Empire of Normality. I’m […]
Symposium on Empire of Normality – Money Talks and Moral Responsibility Walks by Sofia Jeppsson
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 – 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, […]
Upcoming Symposium on Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism, Jun. 3-7, 2024 (Updated)
A symposium on Robert Chapman’s groundbreaking new book, Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism, will take place on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY from June 3-7, 2024. The symposium will comprise commentaries on the book by Mich Ciurria, Jane Dryden, Johnathan Flowers, and Sofia Jeppsson, as well as a response to these comments by Robert Chapman. From Monday […]
Upcoming Symposium on Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism, Jun. 3, 2024
As I indicated in a previous post, a symposium on Robert Chapman’s groundbreaking new book, Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism, will take place on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on June 3. The symposium will comprise commentaries on the book by Mich Ciurria, Jane Dryden, Johnathan Flowers, and Sofia Jeppson, as well as a response to these […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, February 21, 2024
I have read almost all of your interviews and they are always wonderful. … I am really looking forward to the next installment of Dialogues on Disability.” — Adrian Piper “I’ve learned so much from Shelley Lynn Tremain’s Dialogues on Disability through the years (and found out about so much exciting work being done by disabled […]
Robert Chapman: Towards a Democratic Approach to Health Concepts, King’s College London/Online, Oct. 20, 2022
The Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine project at King’s College London are excited to announce a new colloquium series entitled ‘New Work on the Concepts of Health and Disease’, which will be running every other Thursday until early next year. The first talk will be given by Dr Robert Chapman on Thursday the 20th of October at […]
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