Epistemic Injustice in the Criminal Trial by Federico Picinali

“… Jasmine Gonzales Rose, Rachel Herdy, Tareeq Jalloh and Abenaa Owusu-Bempah have each written a paper commenting on my essay ‘Evidential Reasoning, Testimonial Injustice and the Fairness of the Criminal Trial’, which appeared in Quaestio Facti in 2024. …”
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Telephones, Narrative, Algorithms: Untimely Meditations on Kafka by Ansgar K. Mohnkern

“…This essay traces Kafka’s writings as documents of a technological consciousness both a century ago and today. …”
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Anthropocene, History and Politics. Challenges and Critical Itineraries by Furio Ferraresi

“…The essay addresses some questions that the concept of the Anthropocene poses not only to political theory but also to the humanities and social sciences. …”
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Que bom te ver viva: vozes femininas reivindicando uma outra história by Kátia da Costa Bezerra

“…The language used by the two groups constantly revolves around the mythic images of “heroes”, “victims”, “for the good of the people”. This essay focuses on Que bom te ver viva, by Lúcia Murat, who brings a new perspective to this debate. …”
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Electricity and Static: Franklin and his British compatriots by Robert Mankin

“…The aim of the essay is to suggest that Franklin was neither a child of the British or European Enlightenment nor one of its toys. …”
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The Masquerade in the Marketplace: dele jegede's Introspections and Reflections In Colors and Lines by Toyin Falola

“… This essay is about the art and life of dele jegede, one of the foremost Yoruba artists and cartoonists. …”
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Caring For Performance: Recent Debates by Hanna B. Hölling

“…Enhanced by short philosophical reflection surrounding conservation and its entanglement with the world, this essay reviews the debates that took place on the occasion of the international colloquium devoted to the conservation of performance, Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Care. …”
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Where is meaning when form is gone? Knowledge representation on the Web by Terrence A. Brooks

“…This essay argues that legacy methods of knowledge represenation do not transfer well to a Web environment. …”
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Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith’s Translation Style in The Freedom Fight and Treasury of Childhood Memories by Tolulope Ibikunle

“…Olubunmi Smith's perspective, the essay aims to address some of the ways she gets to grips with the challenges to promote the Yorùbá language, culture, religion and tradition, as a translator. …”
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South Africa’s Weekly Media: Front-Page Reporting 9/11, Preventing Islamophobia by Muhammed Haron

“…Being a purely textual study, it conceptualizes Islamophobia as the essay’s conceptual frame. …”
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Ujnarone Chosite: Ritual Poesis, Curing Chants and Becoming Ayoreo in the Gran Chaco by Lucas Bessire

“…Ujnarone Chosite: Ritual Poesis, Curing Chants and Becoming Ayoreo in the Gran Chaco. This essay describes the ujnarone curing chants among the so-called Ayoreo Indians of the Bolivian and Paraguayan Gran Chaco as a communicative and media technology whose potency was rooted in the multiplicities of social time and the dynamism of performative contexts. …”
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Spirituality in a secular age: from Charlies Taylor to study of the Bible and spirituality by A. T. Lincoln

“…The essay indicates the significance of Taylor’s work for understanding the present context of the experience of spirituality. …”
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“You are next in line”: Moving down the Line(s) with Ron Padgett by Olivier Brossard

“…An attempt at defining such versatile spaces, this essay seeks to explore line breaks as the pretexts for Ron Padgett’s metatextual poetics. …”
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De la porte de Brandebourg à La Havane : Wilder, Hitchcock et l’héritage révolutionnaire by Julie Michot

“…The aim of this essay is to study the devices used by both whether in their script or filming, to illustrate their vision of capitalism and communism. …”
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Is there a sound democratic case for raising the membership of young people in political parties and trade unions through descriptive representation? by Thomas Tozer

“…Young people, moreover, satisfy this case in terms of membership of political parties – but less so in the case of trade unions. Finally, the essay considers practical methods for improving young people’s representation in these.…”
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Whose Voice? Tim Crouch’s The Author and Active Listening on the Contemporary Stage by Vicky Angelaki

“…The essay discusses Tim Crouch’s recent play The Author (2009) in the context of active listening, audience participation, response and responsibility in contemporary theatre. …”
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Le corps du monstre sans-papiers by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

“…The essay seeks to account for the contrast between the prosthetic body of the posthuman and the suffering body of the illegal immigrant. …”
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Visual Hybridity: Margaret Murray Cookesley’s Orientalist Aestheticism by Julia Kuehn

“…This essay foregrounds the work of late nineteenth-century British painter Margaret Murray Cookesley, who may be largely forgotten today, but who in her day exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and, it seems, also managed to sell her art to an interested public. …”
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The Reader at Play in “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story” by Paul Auster by Linda Collinge-Germain

“…Michel Picard, in an interdisciplinary approach using existing research in the fields of psychology and anthropology, theorized the link between the literary reader and play in his essay La Lecture comme jeu published in 1986. His hypothesis is that reading is a specific form of play and like play has a function. …”
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The resurrection as Christ's entry into his glory (Lk. 24:26) by Pieter G. R. de Villiers

“… This essay discusses some apocalyptic perspectives on Luke’s portrayal of the resurrection as Christ’s entry into his glory (Lk. 24:26) in order to point out its mystical nature. …”
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