Neo Xia, The Material Metamorphosis of Neon Symbols and the Reconstruction of Power: A Media Topology Study from Industrial Relics to Digital Simulacra, Southern Semiotic Review, Issue 22 2025(ii) http://doi.org/10.33234/SSR.22.1 Abstract This study redefines neon lighting as a dynamic semiotic infrastructure that reflects the interplay of material constraints, media architectures, and power mechanisms. By tracing …
Federico Soldani, “Mr. President, are you crazy?”: The New York Times calls for an “intervention” on the “mad king” Trump, echoing the scene of George III — last king of America — at the origins of psychiatry. When politics is constructed for the public as a psychiatric spectacle. Blog post. PsyPolitics. A blog about the …
Neil Vickers, Céline Lefève, and Patrick ffrench (2025). The medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative history. History of the Human Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951251371976 Abstract This article presents a comparative historical analysis of the development of the medical humanities in the United States and France. In the US, the field evolved through three …
Ana Crespo-Solana, Ships Arriving at Ports and Tales of Shipwrecks: Heterotopia and Seafaring, 16th to 18th Centuries. Heritage. 2025; 8(10):411. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage8100411 Abstract The objective of this article is to provide a critical analysis of maritime heterotopia as a category for reinterpreting ships, shipwrecks and maritime landscapes between the 16th and 18th centuries. Through an interdisciplinary …
Anjela Mikhaylova, Sara Wilford, Bernd Stahl, Laurence Brooks, Smart Doorbells in a Surveillance Society, Ethical and Social Impacts of Information and Communication Technology: 22nd International Conference, ETHICOMP 2025, Lisbon, Portugal, September 17–19, 2025, Proceedings pp. 451 – 463 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-01429-0_39 Abstract Smart doorbells, promoted as tools of convenience and peace of mind, extend far beyond their …
Diana Stypinska, Social Media, Truth and the Care of the Self. On the Digital Technologies of the Subject, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 About this book This book explores the relationship between (post)truth and subjectivity by focusing on social media as a site of digital subjectification. These days, truth is cheap. Anyone can claim it. Indeed, most …
Carol Bacchi, What’s the Problem Represented to Be? A New Thinking Paradigm, Routledge, 2025 Description Originally developed as a mode of critical policy analysis, ‘What’s the Problem Represented to Be?’: A New Thinking Paradigm extends the thinking behind the innovative ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ (WPR) approach to new areas of investigation. It poses …
Stephen Legg, Spaces of Anticolonialism. Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities, University of Georgia Press, 2025. Interview on the New Books Network, 23 January 2026 A historical geography of spaces of anticolonialism in the capital of contemporary India Spaces of Anticolonialism is the first book-length account of anticolonialism in Delhi, as the capital of Britain’s empire in India. …
Gilles Deleuze, Corso su Michel Foucault. Il sapere| Il potere| La soggettivazione, Ombre Corte, 2025 In occasione del centenario della nascita di Gilles Deleuze, tornano disponibili in un elegante cofanetto tutte le lezioni che il filosofo francese ha tenuto tra il 1985 e il 1986, nel corso dedicato all’opera dell’amico Foucault, a un anno dalla …
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