S1 E7 Margrit Shildrick: Difference and Danger

Sofia Varino talks with Margrit Shildrick in June of 2015 during a conference on posthumanism at the University of Geneva. Shildrick was giving a keynote on immune-politics and Sofia was presenting on environmental justice. Shildrick is professor of gender and knowledge production at Linköping University in Sweden and a key theorist of disability. Shildrick’s work on feminist posthuman ethics and embodied difference has been crucial to Sofia’s own research on bodies and illness. Shildrick is the author of several books including Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality, and of many articles in the fields of medicine and philosophy. It was an honor and a pleasure to speak with her about her thought and activism while we sat on a bench in the Parc des Bastions in Geneva during a hot summer afternoon to discuss the role of radical politics and poststructuralist thought in her practice as a philosopher of the body.