Robert Chapman
@drrobertchapman.bsky.social
socially neurodivergent, fiscally communist philosopher
this is what getting ready for work looks like when you work in the medical humanities
new article! i've written an in depth piece about how british critical psychiatry (of the bourgeois variant) has been increasingly co-opted by radical conservatives - and how this has enabled the new tory assault on disabled people.
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/critical-p...
I enjoyed doing this interview with RS21!
"I was interested in pushing back against this idea that normality is just culturally relative. Capitalism is now and for a long time has been a global system, and it enforces these norms globally."
www.rs21.org.uk/2024/04/09/e...
Empire of Normality
Hazel Croft talks to Robert Chapman about his new book Empire of Normality
www.rs21.org.uk
New Empire of Normality review in @redpeppermag.bsky.social !
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
new article written with some pals
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
new podcast! this is an in depth interview with Jess Meadows over at Sluggish, covering neurodivergent marxism, the limits of liberal neurodiversity, why normality is *not* a myth or illusion, and much more!
www.sluggish.xyz/p/neurodiver...
knowing that aaron bushnell was neurodivergent and committed to anti-ableism imo provides important context to his resistance to what the "ruling class has decided will be normal". we must recognize and remember this.
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@mariemarm.bsky.social just saw this, maybe it could be a good place for you to submit something on neurodiversity?
Philippine Philosophy Anthology
We are a group of six Filipina and Filipinx philosophers editing an anthology of Philippine philosophy. It will include re-prints of published pieces alongside original chapters and commentaries. We a...
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did you know you only use 10% of your brain at any given time?
the other 90% is constantly being exploited in multiple subtle ways to generate capital for billionaires
the whole post-truth scare where a load of journos blamed everything they hated in the world on a few post-structuralist philosophers they half remembered reading in their uni days just kind of fizzled out when the pandemic hit didn't it
i've written something on sloth communism
criticalneurodiversity.com/2024/02/20/s...
Sloth Communism
Sloth III by Lorena Santos I enjoyed reading Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth by Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito. His work has already been a surprise hit in Japan, being widely re...
criticalneurodiversity.com
"My interest here is something hitherto unnamed, which I name as Mad supremacy. I call it this because it is roughly the same as aspie supremacy, except it is focused on Madness rather than autism."
criticalneurodiversity.com/2024/02/19/m...
Mad Supremacy
William Hogarth (1697-1764). The Rake's Progress, Plate VIII "Scene in Bedlam". People involved in the neurodiversity movement have long used the concept of “aspie supremacy” (originally coined by Mel...
criticalneurodiversity.comwe really need to develop a radical politics of long COVID huh
Online book launch is tomorrow!
Hey I am doing an online book launch for Empire of Normality with the Marxism and Disability Network!
Time and date: Tue, 6th Feb
6:30pm - 8:00pm, GMT
See the link and/or join their mailing list to access the Zoom link soon!
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2024/01/22/f...
February 2024 – Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Tuesday 6th February 6.30pm – 8.00pm GMT The Marxism and Disability Network Presents a Book Launch for Robert Chapman’s Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism, published by Pluto Pre...
marxismdisability.wordpress.comme, talking to my cat: and what will you be having today sir, the usual??
Hey I am doing an online book launch for Empire of Normality with the Marxism and Disability Network!
Time and date: Tue, 6th Feb
6:30pm - 8:00pm, GMT
See the link and/or join their mailing list to access the Zoom link soon!
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2024/01/22/f...
February 2024 – Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Tuesday 6th February 6.30pm – 8.00pm GMT The Marxism and Disability Network Presents a Book Launch for Robert Chapman’s Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism, published by Pluto Pre...
marxismdisability.wordpress.comThank you so much! yes anything like Goodreads is also hugely appropriated 😊
Hello! Very boring request but if you enjoyed Empire of Normality and bought it anywhere you can leave a rating, I'd really appreciate you doing that. Radical books don't often get reviewed in the mainstream so this really helps! Anyway here's Marcel and Esme:
New interview with P.E Moscowitz on capitalism and the politics of neurodiversity!
mentalhellth.xyz/p/politicizi...
Politicizing Neurodiversity
Robert Chapman on pushing past biological understandings of autism, ADHD, and neurodiversity.
mentalhellth.xyz
Really enjoyed talking with Chris Browne about Empire of Normality for the Radicals in Conversation podcast! Here's a Spotify link but it's also available on apple, Google, and the other usual platforms.
open.spotify.com/episode/7sWk...
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Listen to this episode from Radicals in Conversation on Spotify. In our first episode of 2024 we speak to Robert Chapman, author of Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. Awareness around...
open.spotify.comEnjoyed doing this in depth interview about Empire of Normality!
A Materialist History of Pathology and Neurodiversity: A Conversation with Robert Chapman
Capitalism has led to ever-stifling norms of mental and physical functioning, with resulting increases in various forms of illness and disability.
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-material...
according to a website i've never heard of Empire of Normality is the number 1 best new disability book to read in 2024
bookauthority.org/books/new-di...
happy new year everyone! i've been struggling with long COVID fatigue recently so haven't been able to keep up with correspondence but just want to say i'm so grateful to everyone spreading the word about empire of normality. overwhelmed and hugely grateful.
I remember he reviewed a book on neurodiversity with "magical" thinking in the title and took great offense at that term, not realizing that the term came not from the author but from medical model style psychoanalysis (I don't think he actually read the book)
Super excited to see your review and what you have to say!
Had such a great time in Bristol at the southern launch for Empire of Normality and am looking forward to the northern launch in Newcastle this coming weds! All info and *some* tickets left here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empire-of-...
Thanks Sofia I hope you like it and am excited to see your review!
I'm doing north (Newcastle, December 13th) and south (Bristol, December 7th) launch events for Empire of Normality, each featuring different speakers. Tickets and info in the following links:
Newcastle: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empire-of-...
Bristol:
www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/ham...
Delighted with the first review of Empire of Normality, a careful and insightful engagement written by Ian Parker.
anticapitalistresistance.org/the-empire-o...
The Empire of Normality
Ian Parker looks at a new introduction to neurodiversity that provides a materialist critique of how and why we are made “normal”
anticapitalistresistance.orgAngela Davis's recollection of the 1967 Dialectics of Liberation conference where Herbert Marcuse and Stokely Carmichael spoke: "the air reeked of marijuana and there were rumors that one speaker, a psychologist, was high on acid".
Sorry for the very boring post but if you've bought Empire on Amazon or anywhere else you can leave a rating please do as it really helps!
Here is a Marcel update in return:
Sorry for the very boring tweet but if you've bought Empire on Amazon or anywhere else you can leave a rating please do as it really helps!
Here is a Marcel update in return:
EMPIRE OF NORMALITY: Neurodiversity and Capitalism is out today! It works towards a historical neurodivergent consciousness - to show how neurodivergent liberation is bound up with collective liberation & why our struggle must be against capital & empire. tiny.cc/nkwevz
Here is one of his lesser known, but most innovative articles, from 97 - and the first time "neurological diversity" appeared in print. Here he went behind just reporting on these ideas, instead synthesizing them with existing theory in new ways.
web.mit.edu/comm-forum/l...
Thanks David good points! I think of Mad Power as a tool for working towards Mad Liberation, so it's not one or the other but both.