YOGA-ANTICOLONIAL PHILOSOPHY: An Overview By Shyam Ranganathan Who Is This Book For? I wrote Yoga—Anticolonial Philosophy: An Action Focused Guide to Practice (Singing Dragon 2024) for students of Yoga and philosophy in the broad sense. It is written for people who have a practice of “yoga” or teach yoga, or are interested in the history […]
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 […]
Impostor Syndrome & the False Idol of Intelligence
*I want to thank Meghan Schrader and Neil Levy for commenting on earlier drafts of this post. Neil Levy recently published an interesting take on impostor syndrome, explaining why it’s so common. He says that “pretense is an unavoidable element of coming to occupy a professional role.” So, in a sense, we’re all faking it. I […]
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 […]
AAT Transcript for The Question of Inclusion in Philosophy: Alcoff, Mills, Tremain, LaVine, and Lewis
Academic Audio Transcription (@AAT_transcribes), a fantastic transcription service owned and operated by disabled philosophy graduate student Zara Bain, employs disabled philosophy graduate students and other disabled graduate students who produce excellent transcripts for podcasts, Zoom sessions, videos, etc. Zara’s company recently completed a transcript of “The Question of Inclusion in Philosophy,” a Zoom session in […]
The Question of Inclusion in Philosophy: Alcoff, Mills, and Tremain Join LaVine and Lewis
In the previous post on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, I mentioned a podcast that Linda Alcoff, Charles Mills, and I would be recording for the Larger, Freer, More Loving series hosted by Matthew J LaVine and Dwight Lewis. The motivation to record the discussion was the announcement about the SSHRC project “Extending New Narratives in the History […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, June 17th, at 8 a.m. ET
“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 “The Dialogues on Disability platform … has been very helpful to me, especially at times where I did not feel I belong in the world of […]
The Skin We’re In: Racism in Canada
In previous posts (e.g., here), I cited remarks that award-winning journalist and activist Desmond Cole has made about the “magical thinking” that enables white people in Canada to convince themselves that racism does not exist in Canada. Last year, Cole made a documentary entitled “The Skin We’re In: Pulling Back the Curtain On Racism in […]
My Journey In Our Struggle (Guest Post)
My Journey In Our Struggle By Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman, Ph.D. It began, for me, in an inpatient psychiatric unit. I had been sectioned. Why do I begin narrating my journey at this milestone? • I survived. Not all of us do. I live and work “In The Wake,” to borrow an idea from Professor Christina Sharpe, of those persons […]
Interviews with Black & Indigenous Disabled Philosophers
June 2015: Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Tommy Curry August 2015: Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Anne Waters September 2015: Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Ray Aldred December 2015: Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Damion Kareem Scott September 2016: Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Elvis Imafidon November 2016: Dialogues on […]
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