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Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]
Philosophy of Disability in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Disability Studies
As a contribution to its Digital Reference publications, Oxford University Press is developing a new online Encyclopedia in Disability Studies whose editor-in-chief is David Bolt. Katie Skaal at OUP has asked me to be area editor for Philosophy and Theory of Disability of this online resource. In my role as area editor, I will recommend […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, May 15, 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 “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 […]
Palestinian Liberation is Disability Justice; Disability Justice is Universal Justice
Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove [not only] from our land but from our minds as well – Frantz Fanon Genocide is Disablement To quote Alice Wong from the Disability Visibility Project, “Palestinian liberation is disability justice.” Palestinians are experiencing genocide and “genocide is a mass disabling event and a […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Conscientious Objections, Bioethics, and MAiD
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) sheds light on how the relatively recent deployment in bioethics of the term conscientious objection enables (neo)liberal eugenic goals. As a philosopher whose thinking has been formatively influenced by Foucault, my philosophical motivations derive in large part from a desire to problematize (in Foucault’s sense) what is […]
CEASEFIRE NOW!
Image: 4 squares of lines, one inside the other, at the centre of the squares are the words “Cease” and “Fire,” the former above the latter
CFP: 2024 Online Symposium of the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy, Nov. 21-22, 2024 (deadline: Jul. 24, 2024)
2024 Online Symposium of the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy Dates: November 21-22 (no fee, participation is free) Theme: Rivers and mountains in environmental philosophies in Asia Rivers are flowing, ever-changing and becoming. Mountains tend to be represented as more static aspects of local historical, cultural and natural landscapes. Rivers and mountains are at the heart of many […]
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 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 comments […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): On Arguments for Veganism, Sustainability, and Accessibility
This week’s quote of the week (though it’s only Thursday) concerns arguments for veganism and in particular follows from a defense for veganism that was offered in the discussion period of a recent online event. Last week, I attended a session of The Collective Ethics Seminar in which Tracy Isaacs gave a presentation entitled “Meat-Eating […]
YOGA-ANTICOLONIAL PHILOSOPHY: An Overview (Guest post)
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 […]
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