James I. Porter, Foucault, Kant, and Antiquity. Representations, 1 February 2024; 165 (1): 120–143. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2024.165.5.120 Abstract Michel Foucault’s return to classical antiquity at the end of his career coincides with a turn away from institutional critique and a return to Kant. This is no coincidence. Foucault’s Introduction to Kant’s “Anthropology” (1961) completely anticipates his approach …
Shelza Jalan, The Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Dam and the shifting grounds of resistance, Social Sciences & Humanities Open, Volume 12, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.102118 Abstract: The Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project (LSHEP), India’s largest hydropower initiative in Northeast India, exemplifies the tensions between state-led developmentalism and civil society resistance in ecologically fragile regions. While envisioned as a cornerstone …
Antti Saari, Nelli Piattoeva, and Katja Brøgger. (2026). Introduction: Critical times? Conditions, constraints, and cooptions in contemporary educational critique. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2025.2611004 Extract In educational research, various conceptions of critique and criticality serve as markers for distinct genres of scholarship and writing, as well as for particular types of journals and monographs …
Svetlana Racanović, (2024). Art in a Glass Box: Phantasies, Disasters and Shelters in the (Post-)Human Zoo. Život umjetnosti, 115 (2), 144-163. https://doi.org/10.31664/zu.2024.115.07 Open access Abstract Whether experiencing the oppressive “Rules for the Human Zoo” as inspected by Sloterdijk or “long shadows” of Foucauldian disciplinary-biopolitical society or/and being situated within the Deleuzian society of control, we …
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 …
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 …
Timothy O’Leary, (2026). Fiction’s critique: Gray’s Poor Things and the conduct of sensibility. Textual Practice, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2025.2608009 ABSTRACT This essay explores how works of literary fiction contribute to the aims of critique, understood along Foucauldian lines as a transformative engagement with modes of subjectivity. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière, these …
Richard Wolin, (2025). Blanchot Collabo: From the Jeune Droite to Jeune France. French Politics, Culture & Society, 43(1), 93-124. https://doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2025.430105 Abstract Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003) was best known for his pathbreaking forays in literary criticism: dense meditations on the abyss of literary meaning, culminating in his radical insight concerning the ontological impossibility of writing or écriture. …
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