Jan. 2026 Yaron Ariel   Bina Nir   Digital technologies and social media platforms have reconfigured traditional conceptions of success in Western societies, shifting emphasis from intrinsic flourishing, as articulated through Aristotelian eudaimonia, to externally measured metrics, such as follower counts and engagement rates. Historically, the Protestant Work Ethic (PWE) played a pivotal role in this shift, recasting success as an outward sign of moral worth, thereby facili

Jan. 2026 Jian Xiao ,  Pieter Verdegem This article proposes an integrated theoretical framework combining critical political economy and cultural studies to analyze AI and its societal implications. While political economy illuminates the structural inequalities and power concentrations that characterize AI capitalism, cultural studies reveals how individuals and communities negotiate, resist, and find agency within these systems. The framework addresses the limitations of a

Dec. 2025 In recent decades, knowledge about the brain has transformed radically, enabling neuroscience to venture into domains traditionally reserved for the humanities and social sciences. This expansion has prompted critiques regarding the potential implications and consequences of neuroscience’s engagement with domains such as education, law, politics, and the self. Building on these concerns, this study seeks to foster a dialogue between two onto-epistemological perspect

Dec. 2025 Zihuan ZHOU Highly educated young employees in Chinese internet companies experience profound alienation, yet many refuse to identify as alienated because alienation is often seen as preferable to unemployment or failure. Instead, they perceive actively alienating themselves as a strategic means of securing a place in a highly uncertain world, aligning with corporate discipline and technological regimes in hopes of achieving future autonomy. This reflects a social i

Nov. 2025 Tanya Horeck This essay explores the strong affective appeal of Netflix’s Adolescence for its adult audiences. It investigates the emotional response to the series, arguing that it feeds into wider discontent over the risks of smartphone usage for young people. Examining the significance of universalised white boyhood in Adolescence , the essay interrogates the cultural stakes of the imagined scenario at its heart – of violent, disenfranchised white boys, incapaci

Nov. 2025 Kathryn Claire Higgins This article theorizes how far-right cultural politics leverage hypothetical injuries and imaginary futures, often through media, to justify agendas of social violence – a technique I term victim could . Victimcould is both a representational achievement (alive within the cultural repertoires of the far-right) and a justificatory logic (supporting the cultural legitimacy of far-right political agendas). Working with the concept of vulnerabilit

Oct. 2025 Jeena Joseph Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a mysterious technological presence hiding behind screens; it is...

Oct. 2025 David M. Berry This paper develops a critical theory of artificial intelligence, within a historical constellation where...

Sept. 2025 ANA TOMIČIĆ MARIJA ADELA GJORGJIOSKA This article examines biases in digital mental health and their impact on technical,...

An acclaimed historian of science uncovers the hidden history of brainwashing—and its troubling implications for today. Because...

Sept. 2025 This article introduces the concept of \textit{authoritarian recursion} to theorize how AI systems consolidate institutional...

Aug. 26, 2025 The advancement of digital technologies has stimulated immense excitement about the possibilities of transforming...

Aug. 26, 2025 The use of Generative Artificial Intelligence has raised concerns related to plagiarism in scientific contexts. However,...