“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 philosophers).” — Jane Dryden “I’ve learned so much about ableism in philosophy and academia from Shelley Tremain. I really recommend the Dialogues on Disability series, but all of Shelley’s work is incredibly valuable.” — Megan Dean “Dialogues on Disability ..read more

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 form of eugenics.” According to the Gaza Health Ministry, “more than 34,535 Palestinians have been killed and 77,704 wounded in the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 last year.” Palestinians a ..read more

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 taken for granted as self-evident, assumed to be value neutral, represented as politically innocent, or passes as progressive. In my quote-of-the-week post two weeks ago, for instance, I aimed to show how argument ..read more

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 ..read more

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 environmental philosophies in Asia, across different cultures, traditions and practices. Environmental philosophy explores the ways we relate to nature, framed by cultural worldviews an ..read more

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 Amandine Catala, Mich Ciurria, Jane Dryden, Johnathan Flowers, and Sofia Jeppson, as well as a response to these comments by Robert Chapman. You won’t want to miss it ..read more

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 as Ideology and “Meat-Eaters’ Fragility.” You can find the abstract for the presentation here. The presentation was excellent. Tracy has a wonderfully engaging style of delivery and her remarks were wide-ranging, informative, and well-researched. You may reca ..read more

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 of philosophy and the topic of colonialism. In writing it, I tried to combine the accessibility of an undergraduate introduction with the academic rigor that is also part of such an introduction. The original philosophy and practice, Yoga, is explica ..read more

Guest editors: Moira Howes, Trent University (mhowes@trentu.ca) Audrey Yap, University of Victoria (ayap@uvic.ca) Contributions are invited that will address themes and arguments arising from the work of Cate Hundleby. Submissions should be sent to the guest editors before September 1, 2024. https://www.uwindsor.ca/crrar/466/call-papers-dr-catherine-e-hundleby ..read more

This week’s quote of the week (though it’s only Thursday) returns us to earlier discussions of MAiD (on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY and here) in which I point out that proponents of this mechanism of eugenics generally hold dated understandings about contemporary forms of power (its character, how it coalesces, how it operates, etc.), assuming facile liberal conceptions of agency and choice in order to argue that people who undergo this grievous intervention are exercising their respective inherent rights to autonomy. Examples of these outdated juridical understandings of power, according to which ..read more