BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

I have been wondering whether NAZA, the outstanding new documentary film about the Israeli Defense Force’s (IDF’s) use of AI in the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza (directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and produced by The Guardian and some of the makers of the brilliant and chilling film Zone of Interest) would soon be showing at one of the ot...

The eugenic culture of Canadian philosophy, in particular, and Canadian and indeed North American society, more generally, did not emerge with the entrenchment in Canadian law and policy of Bill C-7 (the legislation that I discuss in “Disaster Ableism, Epistemologies of Crisis, and the Mystique of Bioethics,” my chapter in

Kate Gosselin, Kody Brown, Joshua Duggar… Reality TV gives the impression that most if not all children are being abused. (Can you name a single family-based reality TV show from 2000-2010 that hasn’t beenimplicated in child abuse? I can’t). This month, Collin Gosselin, one of the eight children featured on TLC’s Jon and Kate Plus Eight and later Kate Plus Eight,...

With the presidential run-off looming in Brazil, the country may be on the precipice of tyranny. To remind followers of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY about some of what took place under the earlier Bolsonaro regime, I have copied below “Governing COVID in Brazil: Dissecting the Ableist and Reluctant Authoritarian” by disability theorists Francisco Ortega and Michael Orsini. This es...

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and thirty-seventh installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philosophers and post to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for discussion with disabled philosophers...