More-than-qualitative epistemologies: new ethical opportunities? - Subjectivity Subjectivity - A significant body of interdisciplinary literature has responded to theoretical, methodological, and empirical challenges at the nexus of post, -phenomenological, -humanist,...

More-than-qualitative epistemologies: new ethical opportunities

New article on Making Geography Matter by Mark Jayne, Wu Siying & Wu Chenhui

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On doing your own research: conspiracy theory, distributed intelligence, and the ethics of knowing - Subjectivity The models used to analyse conspiracy theory have often been individualistic; conspiracy theorists have been seen to embody either faulty epistemology (believing things neither true nor justified) or ...

On doing your own research. New article by Chris Fleming on #ConspiracyTheory, #DistributedIntelligence, and the #EthicsOfKnowing

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“Unhomely” home: trauma and displacement in Rahul Pandita’s Our Moon Has Blood Clots - Subjectivity The socio-political upheaval in Kashmir during the late 1980s led to the mass displacement of the Kashmiri Pandit community, forcing them into exile across Jammu and other parts of India. Rahul Pandit...

#Kashmir #Pandit #Pandita #Exile #TraumaAndClass New article by Madhav Dubey and Nagendra Kumar exploring the persistent experience of uncanny estrangement within the intimate space, analysed through Homi K. Bhabha’s notion of the #unhomely

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Policing through fear: the traumatic impact of law enforcement on youth from working class and marginalised backgrounds - Subjectivity Subjectivity - This article investigates the lived experiences of 20 “justice involved” adolescents (aged 15–18) from working-class and marginalised communities in Greece, who...

Policing through fear - original article by Georgia Efstathiadou and @vasilio.bsky.social on the traumatic impact of law enforcement on youth from working class and marginalised backgrounds. #TraumaAndClass

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Bare life and beyond: the ontological politics of peripheral subjectivity in Iran’s authoritarian modernity - Subjectivity This article examines the sovereign production of peripheral subjectivities in the process of authoritarian modernization in Iran through a four-momented ontological framework: exclusion, normalizatio...

New article by Kaveh Haji-Allahverdipoor on the ontological politics of peripheral subjectivity in Iran’s authoritarian modernity

Drawing on #Agamben’s concepts of #BareLife and the #StateOfException

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Twenty-one seconds to Nirvana: a Hegelian critique of cognitive-behavioral therapy - Subjectivity Cognitive behavioral therapy is not only the most widely practiced form of therapy in the world, but its treatment methods—particularly mindfulness—have come to saturate self-help literature, human re...

#CBT #Hegel #Subjectivity Twenty-one seconds to Nirvana: a Hegelian critique of cognitive-behavioral therapy. Original article by Ricky DeSantis

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The HPV vaccine and neoliberal self-management for high-quality bodies to produce high-quality China - Subjectivity We delineate how the role of neoliberal governing logic and the expanding medical markets in China influence Chinese women’s enthusiasm for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. The desire for bette...

#HPVvaccine and #NeoLiberal #selfmanagement in #China. Original article by Fouzieyha Towghi and Yuqi Zhuang

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Discursively Constructing the Postneoliberal Subject: Conservative Christianity and the American Worker in Project 2025 - Subjectivity There is growing consensus that we are undergoing a paradigm shift from neoliberalism to postneoliberalism. While the characteristics of postneoliberalism are still being determined, this study seeks ...

Discursively Constructing the Postneoliberal Subject: Conservative Christianity and the American Worker in #Project2025. Original article by Dr Julie Steinkopf.

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The enigmatic trauma of the Greek crisis: a psychosocial approach - Subjectivity Despite its idiosyncratic features, the experience of the Greek crisis of the 2010s was decisively shaped by discourses articulated at the global, European, and national levels. While numerous sociological accounts have explored the spatio-temporal continuities and discontinuities of the crisis, few scholars have employed the concept of trauma to make sense of what changed and what remained the same, before and after the default. From a psychosocial perspective, this is a missed opportunity, not least because trauma is a boundary and thus enigmatic concept that, rather than typifying change, seeks to illuminate the interconnections between past and present, self and other, memory and practice. Drawing on 91 life story interviews conducted between 2020 and 2023, the paper examines the trauma of the Greek crisis, with a particular focus on its often-overlooked class-related manifestations.

"The enigmatic trauma of the Greek crisis: a #psychosocial approach" by Giorgos Bithymitris. #TraumaAndClass #OpenAccess

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Assemblages and Identitarian Articulations - Subjectivity The article advances our understanding of “identifications,” such as race, class, gender, familial, and religious, which are seen as active processes continuously reconstituted through interactions (with objects, technologies, discourses, and bodies) in assemblages. “Identitarian articulations” represent the unique entanglements of these identifications within different assemblages. This concept highlights how identifications interact dynamically within a given assemblage, creating distinct articulations that reflect the particular assemblage’s characteristics. The text emphasizes that assemblages are not static but ongoing processes shaped by desires and interactions among their components (people, objects, technologies, discourses, and emotions). These interactions affect the capacities of the identifications involved. We understand capacities as potential actions stemming from identifications, suggesting that while properties define entities, their capacities reveal what they can do in relation to others. In summary, the article investigates how identifications, through their entanglement, trigger specific identitarian articulations within varying assemblages and the role of capacities in these processes.

Assemblages and Identitarian Articulations. Original article advancing our understanding of “identifications,” such as race, class, gender, familial, and religious, by Pablo Vila and Edward Avery-Natale. #OpenAccess

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Echoes of the subject: poetic, mathematical, and imaginative interplay in the literary writings of Ada Lovelace and Sofia Kovalevskaya - Subjectivity This paper explores the intricate interplay between mathematics, poetry, and imagination through a close reading of writings by two women mathematicians, Ada Lovelace and Sofia Kovalevskaya. Drawing on Romantic conceptions of the poetic, philosophical accounts of imagination and scientific reverie, and rhythmic and echoic conceptions of subjectivity, the paper argues for a poetics of mathematical thought that resists rigid disciplinary separations. It traces how these women’s literary work mobilizes imaginative registers–analogy, reverie, rhythm, echo, dream–not as metaphors for mathematics, but as vital forms of mathematical invention and expression. The result is a rethinking of what it means to ‘do’ mathematics poetically, not in spite of abstraction, but through and with it–through the reverberations, returns, and recursive patterns that echo through both mathematical and poetic forms.

Echoes of the subject: poetic, mathematical, and imaginative interplay in the literary writings of #AdaLovelace and #SofiaKovalevskaya #Rhythm #Echo #PoeticalScience #MathematicalImagination. Original article by Maria Tamboukou.

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My longform review of Olga Ravn's The Employees and Samantha Harvey's Orbital is now out in Subjectivity journal:

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#Subjectivity. Our June 2025 issue contains articles on #DistributedIntelligence by Liam Magee and
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#TraumaAndClass by Diane Reay, and Tara Page on "Making Ethics"

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‘Lived experience’ is valued in activism – but is it doing more harm than good? Activists without ‘lived experience’ can feel unsure of their place.

‘Lived experience’ is valued in activism – but is it doing more harm than good? theconversation.com/lived-experi... by @jodymooreponce.bsky.social based on her peer-reviewed open-access article in @j4subjectivity.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Computational scapegoats: from mimetic to alienated desire in the production of large language models, by Liam Magee

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Before and after the internet - Subjectivity Subjectivity -

Before and After the Internet. We have just published a review of two recent books on #AlgorithmicCulture and #PlatformCapitalism by @striphas.bsky.social and @synthesiastica.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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#Subjectivity our latest issue now out, with original articles on the sibling experience of China's #OneChild policy, activism and #livedexperience, and police in South Africa. Plus two book reviews on #DigitalSubjectivity and #AlgorithmicSubjectivity. link.springer.com/journal/4128...

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#Subjectivity our latest issue now out, including articles on #precarity and #wellbeing, #BifoBerardi and #semiocapitalism, #PostTruth politics, and #MentalHealth apps, plus film essay on #AgnèsVarda, and commentaries on #SexualHealth and #TechDevices. link.springer.com/journal/4128...

Beyond guilt: deploying ‘Lived Experience’ for solidarity and social change - Subjectivity ‘Lived experience’ is a pivotal concept in activism, highlighting the rights of marginalised individuals to share their stories and gain recognition within broader societal discourse. Social movements...

Beyond guilt: deploying #LivedExperience for #Solidarity and #SocialChange New article by @jodymooreponce.bsky.social #OpenAccess #OnlineFirst link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Police subjectivities in South Africa: a discourse analysis of police officers’ talk on protest - Subjectivity Police officers in the South African Police Service (SAPS) undertake their police work within national, institutional, and personal discourses. Together, these discourses create different, often contr...

Police subjectivities in #SouthAfrica. Josephine Cornell, Nick Malherbe, Shahnaaz Suffla & Mohamed Seedat use #Foucault #DiscourseAnalysis to explore police officers’ talk on protest #OnlineFirst #OpenAccess link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The entombed lives – the experience of sibling abortion under China’s One-Child Policy - Subjectivity Drawing on the author’s own experience, this paper explores the rarely researched experience of sibling abortion under China’s One-Child Policy through a psychodynamic lens. The author uses writing as...

The entombed lives. Integrative counsellor and psychotherapist Ying Liu uses a #psychodynamic lens to explore the experience of #sibling #abortion under #China #OneChildPolicy #OnlineFirst #OpenAccess link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Revisiting the liberation dilemma in the context of semiocapitalism: Berardi’s breakthroughs and limits on the predicament of post-operaismo - Subjectivity In addressing the liberation dilemma in post-operaismo theory, Berardi transforms radical political action into his politics of therapy. He emphasizes the reinforcement of capitalist domination and th...

"Revisiting the liberation dilemma in the context of #semiocapitalism". New article on Franco #BifoBerardi by Sun Liang and Liu Lipeng

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Deconstruction at the Time of Post-Truth Politics - Subjectivity Deconstructionist depiction of fictionality within the relationship between truth and sovereignty helps to understand how time relates to post-truth politics and to counter its proliferation within po...

In "Deconstruction at the Time of Post-Truth Politics" Elia Pusterla connects the philosophical arguments of #JacquesDerrida and #GiorgioAgamben to explore the pervasive nature of #PostTruth within politics. #OnlineFirst #OpenAccess

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Exploring precarity and wellbeing through embodied eco-psychotherapies and posthuman subjectivity - Subjectivity This article presents the case for a rethinking of wellbeing in precarious times. Covid-19 made visible ways in which precarity has become central to daily living and to existence itself. From employm...

In "Exploring precarity and wellbeing through embodied eco-psychotherapies and posthuman subjectivity" Amanda Light presents the case for a rethinking of #wellbeing in precarious times. #OnlineFirst #OpenAccess

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On the Subjectivity of Devices - Subjectivity This is a commentary on (Ruse et al. Left to their own devices: The significance of mental health apps on the construction of therapy and care, Subjectivity, 2024), published in the Special Collection...

Extended commentary from @richardveryard.bsky.social on "Left to their own devices", by Jesse Ruse, Ernst Schraube and Paul Rhodes

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Left to their own devices: the significance of mental health apps on the construction of therapy and care - Subjectivity Mental health (MH) mobile apps offer convenient, low/no-cost automated psychological support. Little is known about what this technology does to the very definition of MH care. Looking through a post-...

In "Left to their own devices", Jesse Ruse, Ernst Schraube and Paul Rhodes explore how digital mental health tools redefine the meaning of mental health care. #OnlineFirst #OpenAccess

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