Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality

BIODIAL: The Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality is a research project at the University of Oslo, funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

A topic for our times: Can illness make us less human? Michael Lundblad discusses illness and animality in this new interview... https://t.co/BvXqp1OWlS

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

On disability, norms, and artificial intelligence... https://t.co/belIrJSsmh

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

‘Tis the season... to buy a bunch of things for your nearest and dearest. How about these? https://t.co/zemUrMjHxX

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

A monster Monday podcast: @BIODIAL_Oslo's very own
@saraorning and @fonthelvetica discuss zombies, vampires, disability, animality, community, and alterity for @_MonsterNetwork. Happy (belated) Halloween! https://t.co/LHf1gHnKYD

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

One to look out for... https://t.co/hWXaTcNRrV

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

Still riffing on the theme of posthumanism... https://t.co/AJnr7Pm24v

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

The Mushroom at the Beginning of the World? https://t.co/TljfEUog2T

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

‘I began to wonder: in a world without hearing, what does song look like?’ https://t.co/qynnSWvXAD

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

One member of our research team read this article by @PeterBeinart for @TheAtlantic and asked a great question: 'vax norms = positive biopower?' So: any answers out there? https://t.co/WZk4afbH7Q

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

It's about time for an anthology like About Us. If the
@nytimes essays we've already read are anything to go by, this will be a remarkable compendium...

[R. Garland-Thomson @RGarlandThomson]

https://t.co/wZrC7DHmwI

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

Perhaps not very surprising... but a great reminder, all the same.

[Marc Bekoff @MarcBekoff]

Manta Ray Fishes Make Friends—and It's Not Very Surprising
New research shows these amazing beings are "social butterflies of the sea."
It's important it is to keep an open mind about the cognitive and emotional lives of nonhuman animals.
https://t.co/MhvYtRtiAo

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

Featuring the brilliant Frans de Waal, @bjkingape, @carlsafina, and more. Superb intro to some vital @BIODIAL_Oslo questions... https://t.co/mQeX4KlJ16

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

Delighted to announce that the brilliant Neel Ahuja and Margrit Shildrick will be in Oslo to take part in our international seminar, ‘Monstrous Others: Terrorism, Animality, and Monstrosity in Contemporary Cultural Studies’, on 12 September... https://t.co/vIhV6NdQSw

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

'Smith’s patients are just two examples of people who have body integrity identity dysphoria, also known as being transabled: They feel they are disabled people trapped in abled bodies'... https://t.co/zFKENt2lll

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

Delighted to kick off the new semester with a fresh blog post from the brilliant Sara Orning, hitting every letter in the @BIODIAL_Oslo acronym, and plenty more besides... https://t.co/1XxEO8EhHE

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

Newsflash! 17 June. University of Oslo. 'Illness and Disability in Literary and Cultural Texts: An International Seminar'. Susan Schweik is headlining. The support acts promise to be wonderful. And there are still a few spaces left... https://t.co/dp98OgGoAL

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

The radical posthumanist philosophy of Karen Barad takes its lead from the work of physicist Niels Bohr. As we explore the intersections of posthumanism and disability studies here at #nndr2019, it’s fitting that the conference venue sits at *this* intersection...

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

A surefire way to ensure that all delegates are up nice and early: start the programme for the day with Katherine Runswick-Cole’s excellent keynote on disability and the neoliberal-ableist dualism of ‘hard-working’ and ‘troubled’ families in the age of austerity... #nndr2019

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

Jesper Vaczy Kragh kicks off NNDR 2019 with his keynote, ‘Patterns of inclusion and exclusion: History, disability and the welfare state’. The politics and philosophy of inclusionism promise to feature heavily in Copenhagen this week.. #nndr2019

[Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality @BIODIAL_Oslo]

Norway's own Karl Ove Knausgaard on the photography of Stephen Gill: 'I’d never seen birds in this way before, as if on their own terms, as independent creatures with independent lives'... https://t.co/lklO8hTWqK