VOLUME 11(2) • 2023
Academics as Educators: Subjectivity-Centric Practice in Higher Education
ABSTRACT. Educating contains features distinct from teaching and learning. This paper sets out a case for this statement based on concerns Gert Biesta raises about the limitations of the learning focus in contemporary higher education. It is argued that it is important for academics to think of them..
Surviving the Years of Plague: Two Feminist Academics’ Interrupted Reading of Raewyn Connell’s The Good University
ABSTRACT. This epistolary article presents a slow reading of Raewyn Connell’s The Good University by two feminist scholars. Our conversation brings a unique perspective to Connell’s book, capturing our lived experience of plagues, or persistent afflictions causing worry and distress, within and beyo..
The Relationship between Recreational International Travel Experience, Openness to Experience and Cultural Intelligence in High School Students
ABSTRACT. The world is flattening, and the younger generation must be culturally competent to navigate an interconnected society successfully. A high level of cultural intelligence (CQ), which is defined as the ability to adapt to culturally different settings, can not only be a predictor of increas..
What’s so European about the Crisis of the European Sciences?
ABSTRACT. The contemporary crisis of the European sciences and arts is not simply European – it is a crisis of universal truth. But a response is possible, as Husserl suggests, if we revivify the task of philosophy as universal science. A renaissance, therefore, in the theory and practice of the sci..
Resolving the Passion of Responsibility through the Secret
ABSTRACT. This study attempts to investigate the problem of responsibility as stated by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his essay ‘Passions: “An Oblique Offering.”’ Having rejected the previously postulated notions of responsibility, Derrida ventures into positing his own peculiar framing ..
Virtualisation of the Lifeworld and Anthropological Changes of the Person of the Digital Era
ABSTRACT. The article discusses the impact of modern technologies on a person’s lifeworld: the anthropological transformations generated by large-scale digitalisation and virtualisation. The goal is to understand the specifics of modern technologies’ impact on a person and their lifeworld. Three gro..
Advanced Computational Thing-Kin: Sociomaterial Kinship and the MakerSpace
ABSTRACT. The incursion of tech companies into wider aspects of our lives means that computational thinking has become increasingly enmeshed with physiological, emotional, creative and social aspects of human life. We suggest that advanced computational thinking should be considered in wider terms t..
Conceptual Autoethnography: Every Third Linefrom Work Emails I Sent in 2021
ABSTRACT. Here I present conceptual writing as/within autoethnography. As a conceptual writing project, I took the third line of every email I sent from my work account in 2021 (January 1 to December 31) and present each as a single, stand-alone line. As autoethnography, the work reaffirms Raymond W..