Pirkko Markula, Jim Denison, Poststructuralist Methodologies for Physical Activity Research Theory and Practice of Foucault, Deleuze, and Latour, Routledge, 2026 Drawing on the work of Foucault, Deleuze, and Latour, this book opens up a poststructuralist approach to sport, exercise, and dance research. It examines how to incorporate both articulable expression and visible material elements – …
Anna-Verena Nosthoff, Kybernetik und Kritik. Eine Theorie digitaler Regierungskunst, Suhrkamp, 2026. Elon Musk bezeichnet die Plattform X als »kybernetische Superintelligenz«, Mark Zuckerberg denkt Unternehmen als »lernende Organismen«, und der Erfinder der Datenbrille Google Glass sagt: »Die Kybernetik ist überall, wie Luft.« Diese Aussagen kommen nicht von ungefähr. Wer die Digitalisierung verstehen will, muss auf ihre …
Rainer Mühlhoff, The Ethics of AI. Power, Critique, Responsibility, Bristol University Press, 2025 Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. In a world where artificial intelligence increasingly influences the fabric of our daily lives, this accessible book offers a critical examination of AI and its deep entanglement with power structures. Rather than focusing on doomsday …
Stephanie Assmann, Food Education and Rural Resilience in Japan Nourishing National Identity, Routledge, 2025 Food education initiatives exist worldwide, but Japan remains unique with its food education law known as shokuiku. The country’s impressive health metrics — high life expectancies, low obesity, and affordable health care — often lead observers to praise this approach. This …
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 …
Clancy Wilmott, Mobile Mapping Space, Cartography and the Digital, Routledge, 2020 This book argues for a theory of mobile mapping, a situated and spatial approach towards researching how everyday digital mobile media practices are bound up in global systems of knowledge and power. Drawing from literature in media studies and geography — and the work …
Diana Stypinska, On the Genealogy of Critique Or How We Have Become Decadently Indignant, Routledge, 2020 Description On the Genealogy of Critique intervenes into both contemporary academic debates on critique, and today’s mainstream criticism, by reflecting upon the relationship between criticality and social change in the age of post-politics. What does it mean to be …
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