Transcendence of the Human Far Beyond AI—Kafka’s <i>In the Penal Colony</i> and Schopenhauerian Eschatology by Søren Robert Fauth

“…Through a close reading of the narrative <i>In the Penal Colony</i>, it is demonstrated that this yearning is far more radical and uncompromising than the modern vision of extending and optimizing human life. …”
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Exil pénal et circulations forcées dans l’Empire colonial français by Linda Amiri

“…The purpose of this article is to revisit the political and social context of the Algerian period in the French Guiana penal colony (1867-1887), to record these as part of the geography of «trans-imperial» forced transports, tracing the contours of the first generation of Algerian convicts. …”
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Framing Colonial Australia: A Socio-historical Articulation of the Display of Art by Anita Gowers

“…In this context, the cultivation of the arts was seen as a means of rehabilitation, moving the nomenclature away from “penal colony” to the more desirable descriptor “free society”. …”
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