Epistemological Shift Research Articles

The Poetic Wavelength-Tuning into the Meaningful Poetics of Psychosis.

Despite the emerging evidence base to support the therapeutic potential of creative writing and poetry for a variety of mental health problems, the therapeutic potential of poetry for people who have experienced psychosis remains poorly understood. The paper argues that by considering psychosis as meaningful poetics, this epistemological shift has the potential to foster curious inquiry and increase opportunities for meaningful dialogue. The paper introduces and explores the concept of the 'poetic wavelength', building on the previously established notion of the psychotic wavelength, which proposes that others need to 'tune in' to what is being communicated through psychosis. The concept of the poetic wavelength suggests that the reading and writing of poetry may support this process of 'tuning in' both for those experiencing psychosis and those working therapeutically with them.

Feminist flashpoints and the burning question of accountability

The media coverage of the Rubiales/Hermoso non-consensual kiss reveals the ongoing difficulties of holding powerful men accountable, despite decades of feminist mobilisation around sexual violence. This essay builds on Sarah Banet-Weiser’s concept of the ‘feminist flashpoint’ as spectacular media events which can help problematise cultural understandings of ‘accountability’ beyond ‘cancel culture’ and carceral feminist politics. Analysing the Rubiales/Hermoso non-consensual kiss in relation to another feminist flashpoint, the contested interpretation of the photograph V-J Day in Times Square, initiates an epistemological shift that focuses on the spectators of the kiss instead of its protagonists. This critical shift locates a feminist practice of accountability in processes of historicization and thinks of responsibility in collective rather than invidividual terms. This piece is part of a special themed issue on the Rubiales/Hermoso non-consensual kiss.

Fundamental equations and hypotheses governing glomerular hemodynamics.

The glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is the outcome of glomerular hemodynamics, influenced by a series of parameters: renal plasma flow, resistances of afferent arterioles and efferent arterioles (EAs), hydrostatic pressures in the glomerular capillary and Bowman's capsule, and plasma colloid osmotic pressure in the glomerular capillary. Although mathematical models have been proposed to predict the GFR at both the single-nephron level and the two-kidney system level using these parameters, mathematical equations governing glomerular filtration have not been well-established because of two major problems. First, the two-kidney system-level models are simply extended from the equations at the single-nephron level, which is inappropriate in epistemology and methodology. Second, the role of EAs in maintaining the normal GFR is underappreciated. In this article, these two problems are concretely elaborated, which collectively shows the need for a shift in epistemology toward a more holistic and evolving way of thinking, as reflected in the concept of the complex adaptive system (CAS). Then, we illustrate eight fundamental mathematical equations and four hypotheses governing glomerular hemodynamics at both the single-nephron and two-kidney levels as the theoretical foundation of glomerular hemodynamics. This illustration takes two steps. The first step is to modify the existing equations in the literature and establish a new equation within the conventional paradigm of epistemology. The second step is to formulate four hypotheses through logical reasoning from the perspective of the CAS (beyond the conventional paradigm). Finally, we apply the new equation and hypotheses to comprehensively analyze glomerular hemodynamics under different conditions and predict the GFR. By doing so, some concrete issues are eliminated. Unresolved issues are discussed from the perspective of the CAS and a desinger's view. In summary, this article advances the theoretical study of glomerular dynamics by 1) clarifying the necessity of shifting to the CAS paradigm; 2) adding new knowledge/insights into the significant role of EAs in maintaining the normal GFR; 3) bridging the significant gap between research findings and physiology education; and 4) establishing a new and advanced foundation for physiology education.

An Islamic Late Antiquity? Problems and Perspectives

The inclusion of nascent Islam into a Late Antique framework has become largely conventional. And yet, with a few exceptions, Islamicists have been reluctant to discuss the implications of such an epistemological shift, or have had the tendency to reduce an “Islamic Late Antiquity” to its religious and imperial dimensions. My aim is to question some of the consequences of the inclusion of early Islam into a Late Antique paradigm. In particular, I focus on the reception of Late Antiquity among Islamicists; the limits of late antique Arabia; the vexing issue of historiographical categories; and the cultural significance of the first dynasty of Islam, the Umayyads.

Problematic online behaviors constitute related yet distinct conditions: A cross-sectional study

This study tested the Spectrum hypothesis of problematic online behaviors (POBs) which posits that POBs (e.g., online gaming, gambling, sexual activities, and social networking) constitute distinct, yet related constructs. To overcome the limitations of previous research, we recruited a representative sample of young men and capitalized on a common assessment approach (Fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [DSM-5] and Eleventh version of the International Classification of Diseases [ICD-11] frameworks). The study was a single-center, observational study with a cross-sectional design (n = 2620). All targeted behaviors were assessed using the proposed criteria of the DSM-5 and the ICD-11. The correlation analysis showed that online activities were weakly correlated (0.01 ≤ r ≤ 0.19), suggesting that when people engage in one specific online activity to a problematic extent, they do not necessarily engage in several online activities in an excessive way. Using a network analysis, we showed that various POBs might reflect distinct constructs. The community detection analysis identified four communities of items corresponding to each POB. Our robust methodology and sampling strategy suggests that the construct of “Internet addiction” could be misleading. This epistemological shift might be necessary to develop adequate clinical care and public health measures to address POBs.

Ethno-Assyrıologıcal Analogıes And Eclectıc Landscape From Glocal To Global

Archaeology as a discipline began in the 19th century following the main moves of globalization, such as the worldwide spread of capitalism and the imperialist moves of the colonial powers. The discipline's core intellectual goals were also global, such as understanding the vast spread of material culture and the evolution of human ancestors later in the century. In the 20th century, this trend grew even greater; however, with the emergence of numerous social actors towards the end of the 20th century, this situation changed dramatically for many reasons. Archaeology has shifted from a potentially limited, Western narrative of the past to a chaotic but pluralistic study of past material culture from a variety of contradictory perspectives. This is actually a major epistemological shift from a normative, uniform, and integrative narrative to a diversity of different interpretations. The idea of glocalization has been put forward in order to clearly reveal the 'heterogenizing' aspects of globalization. In this vein, it is quite common to find proposed issues related to the "rehumanization" of archaeology and global archaeology. In this article, in the light of a number of examples, the ways in which localities were 'produced' in the ancient Near East, especially in the light of Assyrian examples in the Upper Tigris Basin, and some of their reflections on the global are examined. Our goal is to understand some of the ideas that underpin these recommendations.

A Study of Epistemological Shifts of Feminism in Hashmi’s A House Without Windows and Khan’s Trespassing

A Study of Epistemological Shifts of Feminism in Hashmi’s A House Without Windows and Khan’s Trespassing

The Surface of the World: W. H. Auden and the Umwelt

Abstract Before alighting on his vocation, the poet W. H. Auden grew up among doctors and went to Oxford University to study not literature but the natural sciences. This article pursues the ramifications of that background through the development of Auden’s career, focusing on his biographical and intellectual adjacency to the biologist Jakob von Uexküll. Several close readings illustrate the resonance between Uexküll’s theory of the Umwelt and an epistemological shift at the heart of Auden’s poetry, wherein the idea of the self is reconfigured in terms of the embodied experience of inhabiting a place. In this way, a new perspective takes form on the transdisciplinary scope of literary history, its broader cultural relevance, and the mutuality between the poetic and the scientific imaginations of our own day.

Nolo's Situated Vocabulary: embracing diverse 'worldings' through Participatory Design

Participatory Design (PD) has played a pivotal role in broadening the horizons of Design by fostering new forms of social engagement in the public sphere. However, the emerging social, economic, and environmental challenges of these times force us to question and reconsider our work from a slightly shifted perspective. This paper introduces a case study that employs Donna Haraway's (1988) concept of "situated knowledge" to reframe the practice of PD in the context of urban regeneration. By emphasizing the situatedness of knowledge and acknowledging the diversity of perspectives within the Nolo neighbourhood (Milan, IT), this approach aims at co-creating inclusive, context-specific discourses with the help of the local communities. The work presented here explores how this epistemological shift can address the challenges of engaging with diverse human and non-human communities through the utilization of the Situated Vocabulary—an ongoing research project activated within the framework of the urban living lab of Off Campus Nolo.

Di-vision/double vision

The conference theme ‘Between excess and austerity’ indicates a division which has shaped the discipline of interior design during the twentieth century. This paper is the outcome of a desire to open up this binary relation which continually dogs the practiceof interior design. The writings of Gilles Deleuze, in particular his attempt to ‘overturn Platonism’, are used as a tool to lever and open up possibilities for thinking differently. The immediate effect is that in between excess and austerity one encounters an ‘and’ – excess and austerity – hence the title of the paper ‘di-vision/ double vision’. Rather than between or either/or, it is both. This produces a blurring of vision which problematises the distinction made between interior design and interior decoration based on questions of excess and austerity as one equated with ornamentation versus the essentialism of a minimal aesthetic. This paper considers three familiar modernist surfaces from the twentieth century. Looking through glasses provided by the writings of Deleuze, the Platonic nature of the surfaces is apparent but so too are other ways of viewing these surfaces – division becomes di-vision or double vision and the possibilities for other ways of thinking and doing proliferate. The question of excess and austerity shifts from one of ‘to decorate or not?’ to one where the binary is blurred and the between becomes ‘and’ rather than a between of moderation. This involves an epistemological shift from a search for essences and ideals to an encounter with surfaces where meaning and events happen in which the proliferating intensity of life can be both austere and excessive.

Schooling and Constructions of Citizenship: Some Reflections on Student Agency and Choice

A national system of education in modern nation-states is usually geared towards nation-building and schools play a significant role in grooming children as future citizens. While the dominant and powerful usually emerge as the ‘ideal citizen’ in the national imagination, the marginalized are constructed as the ‘other’, vilified, and stigmatised. The school, with its overt and hidden curriculum, operates as a major site for the reproduction of dominant ideology while at the same time creating opportunities for exercising human agency. This article, an ethnographic study, conducted in a government co-educational school in Delhi examines how it sought to mould the students into ‘ideal’ citizens and how this was received by them. Belonging to a relatively lower socio-economic background compared to the teaching community did they give their acquiescence? Or were they able to exercise their agency to challenge the entrenched power structures in society? Were their responses shaped by their specific social locations and the unfolding of ‘cultural politics’? Moreover, when the nature of ‘official knowledge’ itself has undergone radical shifts and the idea of citizenship has been redefined with the introduction of the National Curriculum Framework 2005, were the students able to leverage the epistemological shifts embodied in the textbooks to reimagine and construct ideas of citizenship regarding marginalised communities? These are some questions that the present article seeks to address.

Epistemology and care: two thresholds between philosophy and politics

This work explores the relationship between philosophy and politics from two thresholds. The first of them recovers the thought of Gloria Anzaldúa to suggest that, between the two, writing plays a double role: on the one hand, as a political act of social transformation, but also as an epistemological shift of the subjectivity and rewriting of reality from an ontology-epistemology of radical interconnection. The second threshold refers to a theoretical conception of care with authors such as Joan Tronto, Laura Pautassi, and Nadya Araujo Guimarães to establish how this perspective implies rethinking politics that addresses intersubjectivity. From the contrast of both approaches, we propose that there is a constant dialogue between politics and philosophy, and the possibility of making visible the vulnerability and interconnection of the human condition.

Which Materialism and What Matter? Rethinking Marxism from a Materialist-Feminist Perspective

The rethinking of Marxist feminism requires the development of a materialist theory of patriarchy and colonialism. In the absence of this theory, biologism and idealism take the lead, as happens in unitary theory, which argues that the subordination of women is due to cultural values or ideas and not to material relations of production. This essay shows that the inclusion of intersectionality does not necessarily neutralize the dominant modern idealist ontology, which refutes the idea that identity is the semiotic dimension of politically relevant materialities. To rethink Marxist feminism also requires an epistemological shift that breaks with that monotheistic thinking that has room for just one evildoer, one universal subject, and one fundamental contradiction.

Metadisciplinarity at the intersection of modern philosophical and philological practices

The article explores the relationship between inter-, trans-, and polydisciplinarity in contemporary humanities. It highlights philosophy's role in fostering critical thinking and methodological reflection. The phenomenon of intersubjectivity/interculturality is discussed in today's network society, emphasizing the ongoing exchange between individual consciousness and interpersonal perception within metadisciplinary philosophical studies. The article illustrates the practical application of metadisciplinarity through a PhD program at Kyiv National Linguistics University, advocating for the reintroduction of philosophy into modern education. It proposes an interdisciplinary segment, "Philosophy of Science and Methodology of Humanitarian Knowledge," integrating philological and professional teaching with philosophy to cultivate reflective and critical skills. The program aims to equip postgraduate students with knowledge of logical, methodological, and epistemological shifts, applicable in teaching. Ultimately, it asserts that combining specific scientific knowledge with philosophical principles in education shapes a flexible and deep conceptual framework, enhancing modern scientific and philosophical discourse. This multimodal approach to metadisciplinary philosophy fosters innovative paradigmatic trends.

Refugee Worldbuilding in Broken Times: (Re)Creating Self-Location in South(east) Asian Canadian Narratives

This paper is focused on interpreting the way in which twenty-first-century refugee writing in Canada is currently approached critically and theoretically. It proposes new reading strategies that contest the influence of nation-state powers over literary production deployed with an aesthetics of cosmopolitanism. In particular, this article takes up refugee writing by Kim Thúy and Sharon Bala, respectively, in order to show how its search for a “Good Life” leads to the transformation of the characters’ subjectivity. This transformation responds to an epistemological shift which confronts issues of Western complicity in foreign human rights abuses and poses questions about alternative epistemologies to Eurocentric notions of healing and trauma recovery in the aftermath of mass violence.

The End of Liberal Peacebuilding

The End of Liberal Peacebuilding

Digital Therapeutic Cultures and Their New Regime of Psychological Truth

The article focuses on contemporary digital therapeutic cultures’ new regime of truth. This entails describing and critically analysing the sociomaterial apparatuses that distinguish truth from false and produce specific modes of subjectivation. The article shows that the digital regime of psychological truth is heir to the behavioural mistrust of subjectivity and the epistemological shift from the causal-comprehensive model towards the probabilistic-predictive one. However, the psychological subject has not been excluded, but her role has changed. The article introduces the distinction between valuable and spurious truths to analyse this shift. Algorithms do not need the psychological subject to produce true outcomes, but they depend on her and psy-knowledges to distinguish significative from irrelevant truths. Following Maurizio Lazzarato, the article concludes that digital therapeutic cultures share one of the main features of contemporary capitalism: to produce value at the intersection of processes of subjectivation and de-subjectivation.

AI in management control: Emergent forms, practices, and infrastructures

This paper discusses the significance of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Machine Learning (ML) and Large Language Processing (LLP), in the context of management control. The key concern is the epistemological shift from traditional deductive approaches to an inductive approach brought about by AI technologies. The paper elaborates on shifts related to the forms, practices, and infrastructures of management control, discussing new avenues for research in social studies of accounting. The discussion outlines how the integration of AI in accounting not only changes accounting practice but also fuels the relevance of some of the prior insights about social aspects of calculative practices. On a final note, the paper also suggests that, given the speed and scope at which new calculative technology is being introduced in virtually all parts of society, accounting scholars may draw upon prior insights and contribute to wider debates about the social impact of AI in society.

Islam as method

This essay presents ?Islam as Method? as a multi-dimensional approach that serves as an academic framework, a process of engagement, and an activist strategy. It argues that Islam, in the ?Islam as Method? thesis, is an ontological category rooted in a commitment to divine unity and ethical principles such as justice (?adl), dignity (karama) and excellence (ihsan). These commitments enable Muslim activists to assert intellectual and cultural autonomy beyond Euro-American academic, political, and ideological constraints. Drawing on examples from Islamicate contexts, this multi-dimensional approach recognizes the diversity within Islamic traditions while identifying common ethical threads that guide collective action. By emphasizing shared principles and the dynamic reinterpretation of Islamic ethics, ?Islam as Method? challenges the dominance of secular and (neo)liberal perspectives and fosters the development of autonomous, cross-cultural dialogue. Informed by the works of contemporary scholars like the late Shabbir Akhtar, Taha Abdurrahmane and Khaled Aboul El Fadl, this method suggests that an intense epistemological shift is underway, allowing committed Muslims to reclaim their agency and produce coherent, ethical knowledge aligned with their values and historical experiences.

Multilingual Encounters beyond (Research) Collaboration: Public Anthropology and “Linguistic Others” in Post-2015 Germany

Abstract This paper reflects on anthropology’s public role in the aftermath of Germany’s so-called “refugee crisis” of 2015. Media and political discussions clearly showed that the dominant (German) culture/Kultur discourse had been primarily based on nineteenth-century evolutionist ideas, structural racism, and growing right-wing populism rather than on established anthropological insights into cultural identity, gender, religion, transnational realities, and political economy. Methodological anthropological tools (i.e., self-reflexivity, ethical considerations, positionality) were nearly non-existent in sociopolitical programs or strategies. We argue for an epistemological shift by referring to current challenges and limitations regarding collaborative research. We propose Encounter/Begegnung as an epistemological standpoint for public anthropology by going beyond research, enabling diverse engagement, knowledge production, and representation. Based on cumulative insights spanning six years of the interdisciplinary, multilingual (Arabic, Farsi, German, English) “Encounter/Begegnung” media project, we argue for shifting the focus from collaboration to encounters as a necessary impetus for public anthropology in post-2015 Germany.