I’m currently reading The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution. So far, I’m learning a lot about French political history and have nothing critical to say. The authors recently published their thoughts on contemporary America in The Guardian, though. There, I was disappointed. The basic problem is that they want to…
I’m many people’s nightmare: a black person who learned critical race theory in public schools, as part of high school debate in the 1990s. I was clearly influenced for life. I’m autistic, and philosophy is one of my special interests. While it’s been cool to see ideas from queer theory and critical race theory become…
Introduction Claire Decoteau’s The Western Disease: Contesting Autism in the Somali Diaspora isn’t the book I was hoping for. I wanted to read about the place of autistic people in Somali society. Are they stigmatized? Is there a niche for them? It’s fun to think about roles we might’ve had in the past, like shaman,…