The Empty Child: Dystopian Innocence and Samuel Delany’s Hogg by Jonathan Mitchell

“…This essay examines Samuel Delany’s novel, Hogg to interrogate the figure of the innocent child and the role of the family in America, especially in mid-century America. …”
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The Book of Repetition: Rachel Cusk and Maternal Subjectivity by Clare HANSON

“…This essay discusses Cusk’s representation of maternal subjectivity in the context of an Anglo-American post-feminist culture which construes motherhood simultaneously as an individual choice and a social responsibility. …”
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“A Cormorant of Libraries”: The Future-Past of Susan Howe’s “Melville’s Marginalia” by Mark Tardi

“…In his influential essay “The Translator as the Creator of the Canon,” Jerzy Jarniewicz outlines the characteristics of what he identifies as “but two of the most interesting species” of translator, the ambassador and the legislator. …”
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A Surgery Issue: Cutting through the Architectural Fabric by Athina Angelopoulou

“…This essay examines the material ontologies of surgical trans-modifications. …”
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"Signs of the Times" – a Theological Basis of Ecotheology and the Christian Competence within the Frame of the Environmental Discourse by Markus Vogt

“… The essay formulates four criteria for identifying the topos "signs of the times" and applies them for a specific Christian understanding of the ecological crisis. …”
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Science-Fiction et Empire by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay (Jr.)

“…This essay makes a preliminary attempt to construct a cognitive map of sf as a creature of imperialism and inspired by a world-view of technoscientific Empire. …”
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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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La teoria dell’Arco Riflesso e l’educazione. L’esperienza come questione didattica nel pensiero di John Dewey by Teodora Pezzano

“…EXPERIENCE AS DIDACTIC ISSUE IN JOHN DEWEY’S THOUGHT Abstract In this paper I will try to focus in the John Dewey’s thought on the relationship between the centrality of the Reflex Arc theory, developed in the essay «The Reflex Arc concept» of 1896, which derives from the essay Soul and Body of 1886, fundamental to understand Deweyan thought and some aspects of Classical Pragmatism, and the didactic issues as developed in the texts: «My pedagogic creed» of 1897 and «The school and society» of 1899.…”
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Dickens and Soundscape: The Old Curiosity Shop by John O. JORDAN

“…Although critics have devoted considerable attention to the visual dimension of Dickens’s novels, relatively little work has been done on Dickens and sound. This essay takes a sound studies approach to reading The Old Curiosity Shop, arguing that Dickens possessed a powerful auditory imagination that is on full display in this text. …”
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Just(ice) Smiling? Masks and Masking in the Occupy-Wall Street Protests by Andreas Beer

“…The essay analyzes concepts of social justice, which were influential during the US-American Occupy protests of 2011. …”
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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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Streetwise Feminism by Hvala Tea

“…This essay interprets feminist and lesbian street actions, street art and graffiti in Ljubljana (Slovenia) as sporadic, anonymous, fleeting, and illegal interventions in the institutionalized sphere of feminist knowledge (re)production and the dominant cultural order. …”
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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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Travail sexuel pour classes moyennes by Elizabeth Bernstein

“…Drawing from fieldwork and interviews with middle-class sex workers, this essay considers the relationship between the class-privileged women and men who are increasingly finding their way into sex work and more generalized patterns of economic restructuring. …”
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Fascisme et science-fiction by Aaron Santesso

“…A great deal of recent criticism has made the case that sf is “naturally” liberal and progressive. This essay will argue that such claims underestimate the diversity of the genre, overlooking the ways in which certain foundational tropes and narrative structures (evident most clearly in pulp-era sf) invite plots and figures aligned more closely with fascism than with progressive thought. …”
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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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Políticas domésticas en arenas (trans)nacionales: Abigail Mejía sobre la invasión de Estados Unidos a la República Dominicana by Yamile Silva

“…This essay analyzes five texts — a short story and four essays — that contribute to the political debates happening during the U.S invasion in the Dominican Republic, and which were published in Spanish newspapers (La Vanguardia and Hojas Selectas) as well as the Dominican paper (La Conquista) between 1918 y 1921. …”
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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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