Revisiting Post-May 1968 French Theory: Critical Thought and Data Capitalism by Alex Taek-Gwang Lee

“…This essay explores the critical crisis stemming from the normalization of data-driven capitalism in the neoliberal era. …”
Get full text

‘Diaphaneitè’ Pater’s Enigmatic Term by Morito Uemura

“…This paper asserts that Pater’s essay title, ‘Diaphaneitè’, a modified version of the French word, enables one to trace the possible presence of Victor Hugo in Pater’s earliest essay. …”
Get full text

L’éducation et la post-modernité entre l’objectivité et la subjectivité : « Vision morale » by Amira A. Zayed

“…Dans notre réflexion, en nous basant sur une vision morale, nous avons essayé d’établir des propositions de compatibilité entre la subjectivité et l’objectivité de l’homme. …”
Get full text

America is Dead. Long Live America! Political Affect in Days Gone by Soraya Murray

“…This essay models a method for understanding political affect in video games by analyzing the American action-adventure survival horror game Days Gone (SIE Bend Studio, 2019). …”
Get full text

‘Echoes from Home’: The Personalist Ground of Newman’s Ecclesiology. Affection as the Key to Newman’s Intellectual Discernment on the Issue of Church by Dr Robert C. Christie

“…The groundwork for the Essay was laid in Newman’s final University Sermon written almost two years earlier (February 2, 1843). …”
Get full text

W.S. Merwin’s Search for Walt Whitman, Whoever He Was by Ed Folsom

“…This essay recounts the author’s decades-long conversations with W.S. …”
Get full text

Adapting Yorùbá Epistemology in Educational Theory and Practice in Nigeria by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

“…Second, the essay deploys the African art-centered investigations of the role of the senses in relating with art, understood as paradigmatic of navigating the world. …”
Get full text

I am hated, therefore I am: The Enemy in Yorùbá Imaginary by Abimbola Adelakun

“…  This essay will study how the Yorùbá conceptualize “ọ̀tá” or the enemy, a trope that recurs in various cultural phenomena such as music, prayers, and other social rituals. …”
Get full text

Aesthetics and Politics: The Afterlives of Oscar Wilde’s The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891) by Xavier GIUDICELLI

“…That is why The Soul of Man under Socialism, his most overtly political essay, published in The Fornightly Review in February 1891, has often baffled critics and elicited contradictory responses. …”
Get full text

Aporia of Participatory Planning: Framing Local Action in the Entrepreneurial City by Ryan Love

“…In this first section of the essay, Adorno's analysis of the Culture Industry is reconsidered alongside Berger’s and Bourdieu's critical sociology. …”
Get full text

Società e ‘ndrangheta. Il caso Reggio Calabria by Gregorio Sorgonà

“…The essay analyses the relationship between Calabrian civil society and the ‘ndrangheta from the late sixties to the present day. …”
Get full text

The Life Span of Large Historical Databases by Jan Kok

“…Large historical databases, although intended to last for a long time, can become obsolete for a variety of reasons. In this essay these reasons are explored and used for a 'health check' of the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN). …”
Get full text

The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker, 2016): The Tale of Nat Turner’s Rebellion by Delphine Letort

“…This essay examines the memories of slavery shaped by Nate Parker in The Birth of a Nation. …”
Get full text

L’artifice fait rire, a moins qu’il ne fasse pleurer by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

“…The essay starts from the romantic attempt at a poetry of nature devoid of artifice. …”
Get full text

Using literature to improve the moral imagination by Stephen Kekoa Miller

“…The primary aim of this essay will be to look at a few arguments for how to improve Moral Imagination. …”
Get full text

Feminist Mothers and Daughters in Top Girls and Yerma by Florentina Gümüş

“…The mothers on which this essay focuses present certain characteristics and express certain views that lead the readers/audience to identify them as feminists, though they do not declare themselves as such. …”
Get full text

Celestial Resistance by Maryia Rusak

“… The essay investigates the application of cosmotechnics in architecture through a case study of a large international construction venture, the Zambia World Bank Education Project. …”
Get full text

The Floor is not the Ground by George Papam Papamattheakis

“…Space structure is defined by logistics-influenced ‘functional diagrams’ and is reduced to mere transitory settings. This essay is an effort to challenge the contemporary ‘fulfilment’-influenced, network-based perception of human transportation spaces, towards, instead, a relational, and effectively political, understanding of them. …”
Get full text

Ọmọ Tí A Kò Kọ́: Globalization and Cultural Education among New Generation Nigerian Yorùbá by Michael O. Afolayan

“… This essay critically explores the semantic, phonological and philosophical implications of the sound “kọ” (build) in the Yorùbá proverb  ́ Ọmọ tí a kò kọ́ ni yóò gbé ilé tí a kọ́ tà (the child that is not taught will eventually sell the house that is built). …”
Get full text

George Eliot’s ‘Greek Vocabulary’ Notebook (c. 1873) as Commodity and Rare Artefact by Linda K. Hughes

“…The material object on which this essay focuses, a notebook bound in leather (originally with blank pages), is one of thousands sold by stationers and others in the later decades of the nineteenth century. …”
Get full text