Mu, Y., & Vásquez, C. (2025). “Waste-sorting is the new fashion”: waste, power, and the semiotic landscape. Social Semiotics, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2025.2543085 ABSTRACT This study examines how the Chinese government uses multiple semiotic resources, in both online and offline contexts, to (re)shape citizens’ behaviors and construct knowledge about wastesorting under the recent national waste-sorting policy. Informed …
Le Blanc, G. (2025). Let Live or Let Die: Stranger to the Nation. Translated by Kaitlin Sager. In: Elhariry, Y., Keller-Privat, I., Tamalet Talbayev, E. (eds) Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean. Mediterranean Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-84043-2_9 Abstract This chapter explores Michel Foucault’s analysis of biopolitics and its application to contemporary migration and refugee issues. …
Frank Fischer, Critical Policy Inquiry. Interpreting Knowledge and Arguments. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024 Presenting a critical approach to the study of public policy and policy analysis, this book offers a postpositivist foundation that challenges empiricist and technocratic approaches to policy studies. Critical Policy Inquiry draws on Jürgen Habermas’s work on communicative action and deliberation, Michel …
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I first posted about these in 2011. They are still going strong. Presents perhaps for the theorist who has everything? For purchase from this site. Sales are still going strong in 2025. There are a range of other buttons covering other theorists and iconic figures as well.
Valentina Antoniol and Stefano Marino (Eds) Foucault’s Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman’s Somaesthetics. Ethics, Politics, and the Art of Living, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description Bringing together Michel Foucault’s aesthetics of existence and Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics, this volume provides a critical comparison of two of the most influential philosophical theories of the late 20th and early 21st …
Xinling Li, The Manufacturing of ‘Correct Collective Memory’ in Chinese Media and the Resistance of Chinese Netizens, In Rawnsley, M.-Y.T., Ma, Y., & Rawnsley, G.D. (Eds.). (2025). Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003362500 Abstract This chapter examines the concept of ‘correct collective memory’, articulated by China’s foreign affairs spokeswoman Hua Chunying during …
Federico Jose T. Lagdameo, “Digital Governmentality: Technological Subjectivation and AI”, Kaabigan: Journal of the Panpacific University, Vol. 3:2, 1-17 (July 2025) doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16786093 Abstract: This article develops a Foucauldian analysis of artificial intelligence technologies, particularly large language models such as ChatGPT, as contemporary technologies of power. Building upon Michel Foucault’s genealogical critique of disciplinary and …
Weili Zhao, Epistemological flashpoints in China’s ‘person-making’ education with reinvoked cultural discourses: lideshuren as an example, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 59, Issue 3-4, June-August 2025, Pages 568–585 https://doi.org/10.1093/jopedu/qhae081 Abstract As an imprint and reinvigoration of Confucian culture, China foregrounds its 21st-century state-run education as to make national(istic) citizens, reinvoking lideshuren (establishing personhood by …
Peter Shay, Grasshoppers and Goldfish: Literature, Subjectivation, and Ethical Democracy, Review of Education Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3 (2025) DOI: https://doi.org/10.71002/res.v5n3p10 Abstract As western society descends into a state of pervasive attention-deficit, a profound ethical crisis unfolds. The erosion of sustained concentration – exacerbated by the manipulative attention economies of digital technologies and the infiltration …
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