Vol. 57 No. 2 (2025): Critical Theory, digital media and the future of democracy

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/aa.v57i2

Published: 2025-12-12

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Introduction to the special issue

Critical Theory, digital media and the future of democracy

Kayleigh Timmer, Dr Anusharani Sewchurran, Dr Mark Jacob Amiradakis, Prof. Jean du Toit

1-14
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Articles

Class contexts in popular drama and horror cinema and TV

Prof Yiannis Mylonas

15-37
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Participatory truth between Adorno’s negativity and Gadamer’s play: digital media, the culture industry, and Kantian aesthetic consciousness

William Shaer

38-59
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Frankfurt School - the musical!: Shock Treatment and the Eros of online civilisation

Prof. Gregory Morgan Swer

60-75
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Teas, symphonies and the culture industry: unpacking Bridgerton's musical legacy

Tamia Moodley

76-98
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The problem with rebellious hyper-femininity: an analysis of social media's undermining of hyper-femininity as subversive praxis

Kayleigh Timmer

99-122
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'Say no genocide': discursive constructions of violence and identities around Gaza

Prof. Anthony Collins, Ahmad Jamal

123-141
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The nomadic war machine of Gabor Maté's Compassionate Inquiry

Prof. Adrian Konik

142-165
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Propaganda, the public spheres, and the new economic conditions of the digital age

Ahmad Jamal, Prof. Anthony Collins
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The loss of environmental knowledge: digital platforms and indigenous games in southern Africa

Elsie Bokaba

190-209
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Considering socio-ecological digital activism through a Fuchsean lens

Prof. Inge Konik

210-232
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A Benjaminian analysis of the built environment toward a critical theory of architecture

Nathisvan Govender, Cate Otto

233-256
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Public lecture

Bram Fischer’s briefcase

Prof. Premesh Lalu

257-271
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