Eberl, J.T., Bishop, J.P. Battlestar Galactica as Philosophy: Breaking the Biopolitical Cycle (2024) The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy Editors: David Kyle Johnson (Editor-in-Chief), Dean A. Kowalski, Chris Lay, Kimberly S. Engels, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 93-112. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24685-2_4 Abstract The reimagined Battlestar Galactica series (2003–2009) and its prequel series Caprica (2009–2010) provoked viewers …
Brake, M. The Joker as Philosopher: Killing Jokes (2024) The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy Editors: David Kyle Johnson (Editor-in-Chief), Dean A. Kowalski, Chris Lay, Kimberly S. Engels, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1987-2001. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24685-2_92 Abstract Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s Batman: The Killing Joke is one of the most popular Batman comic stories, …
Grenier, J.-Y. Michel Foucault and Money (2024) In The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Money: Volume 2: Modern Thought, Ed. Joseph J. Tinguely, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 701-720. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-54140-7_35 Abstract Michel Foucault broached the question of political economy on many occasions without ever offering a comprehensive study of it in its own right. Money in …
Nainani, D. The spatio-legality of corporate sovereignty in AppleTV+‘s Severance (2025) Science Fiction as Legal Imaginary. Edited By Alex Green, Mitchell Travis, Kieran Tranter, Routledge, pp. 293-314. DOI: 10.4324/9781003412274-17 Abstract In the Apple TV+ drama Severance, both the corporate and the human body are reimagined in terms of its legal personhood and identity. Using a …
Geller, P.L. In Small Plastic Things Forgotten: The Contradictions and Consequences of Biopower (2025) In The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics Edited By Genevieve Godin, Þóra Pétursdóttir, Estelle Praet, John Schofield, Routledge, pp. 152-166. DOI: 10.4324/9781003272311-10 Abstract This chapter explores the contradictions raised by and consequences of small plastic things forgotten that were born …
Butchart, G.C. Poststructuralism: A Philosophy of Difference, (2025) In The Handbook of Communication Ethics. Edited By Amit Pinchevski, Patrice M. Buzzanell, Jason Hannan, Second Edition, Routledge, pp. 93-107. DOI: 10.4324/9781003274506-9 Abstract This chapter offers an overview of poststructuralism as relevant to media and communication ethics. Research informed by poststructuralist thinking typically emphasizes alterity over identity, …
Zeytin, E. Constructivist heterotopia or taylorist dystopia? Layers of cinematic space in Chaplin’s “modern times”(2024) Architecture in Cinema, Editors: Nevnihal Erdoğan, Hikmet Temel Akarsu , Bentham Books, pp. 120-128. Abstract In a metaphorical reading, the industrialized modern city of Modern Times is a gigantic factory designed to produce the modern man. It tries to regulate …
Radtke, R.I. The laneway: Urbanism through the lens of interiority and heterotopia (2024) In Gregory Marinic (ed), The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader, Routledge, pp. 34-42. DOI: 10.4324/9780429443091-6 Abstract The laneway is an intimate form of functional space central to the historic evolution of cities. A balance of public and private, fast and slow, interior and …
Scelsa, J.A. The museum: An urban threshold (2024) In Gregory Marinic (ed), The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader, Routledge, pp. 108-115. DOI: 10.4324/9780429443091-15 Abstract The evolution of the museum is a story of the functional problems of designing spaces for display within a larger framework. The museum has been identified by Michel Foucault as an ‘otherspace,’ …
Jordi Collet-Sabé & Stephen J. Ball, (2024). The School Is Irredeemable: Proposing Discomfort for a Different Future for Education. In: Beasy, K., Maguire, M., te Riele, K., Towers, E. (eds) Innovative School Reforms. Education, Equity, Economy, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64900-4_11 Abstract The chapter argues that the modern school is an ‘intolerable’ institution. Contrary to …
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