Petra Mikulan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4288829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Petra Mikulan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Petra |
| FAMILY NAME | Mikulan |
| SIGNATURE | MIKULAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5683-435X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Biotech Womb and the Necropolitics of Purity
The Time a Book Requires; Response to Roberts and Mukherjee
Affective Eugenics
This conceptual-speculative article examines political polarization as a deliberate strategy of affective governance in an age defined by mass dispossession and ecological collapse. We argue that polarization should not be treated as a temporary crisis to be resolved but as a governing technology that organizes fragmentation, consolidates elite power, and deflects attention away from demands for structural transformation. To theorize this dynamic…
Working with Theories of Refusal and Decolonization in Higher Education
Contagious Education
The use of data to govern education is increasingly supported by the use of knowledge-based technologies, including algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI), and tracking technologies. Rather than accepting these technologies as possibilities to improve, reform, or more efficiently practice education, this intra-view discusses how these technologies portend possibilities to escape education. The intra-view revolves around Luciana Parisi’s idea of…
An Ethics of Refusal
To address an ethics of refusal in higher education is to wager in the name of future possibles not already governed by the extractive politics of colonial progress and oppressive regimes of knowing and doing. In this essay, Petra Mikulan shows American pragmatism to have always been, in a certain sense, post‐Anthropocene in its condition of emergence, bound up with settler colonialism and its extractive geopolitics. However, pragmatism in its sp…
Escape education
Claudia Rozas Gómez, Paul Gibbs and Petra Mikulan on Peter Roberts and Herner Saeverot’s Education and the limits of reason
In Education and the Limits of Reason, Roberts and Saeverot (2018) point out that Vladimir Nabokov urged us to read with our spine. They explain this directive as a commitment to reading that engages both the heart and the brain so that neither objective nor subjective interpretations come to dominate our experience of texts. As they beautifully put it, ‘it’s about being touched between the shoulder blades’ (p. 89). In its meticulous entirety, th…
Escape education
Claudia Rozas Gómez, Paul Gibbs and Petra Mikulan on Peter Roberts and Herner Saeverot’s Education and the limits of reason
In Education and the Limits of Reason, Roberts and Saeverot (2018) point out that Vladimir Nabokov urged us to read with our spine. They explain this directive as a commitment to reading that engages both the heart and the brain so that neither objective nor subjective interpretations come to dominate our experience of texts. As they beautifully put it, ‘it’s about being touched between the shoulder blades’ (p. 89). In its meticulous entirety, th…
Contagious Education
The use of data to govern education is increasingly supported by the use of knowledge-based technologies, including algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI), and tracking technologies. Rather than accepting these technologies as possibilities to improve, reform, or more efficiently practice education, this intra-view discusses how these technologies portend possibilities to escape education. The intra-view revolves around Luciana Parisi’s idea of…
An Ethics of Refusal
To address an ethics of refusal in higher education is to wager in the name of future possibles not already governed by the extractive politics of colonial progress and oppressive regimes of knowing and doing. In this essay, Petra Mikulan shows American pragmatism to have always been, in a certain sense, post‐Anthropocene in its condition of emergence, bound up with settler colonialism and its extractive geopolitics. However, pragmatism in its sp…
Working with Theories of Refusal and Decolonization in Higher Education
The Biotech Womb and the Necropolitics of Purity
The Time a Book Requires; Response to Roberts and Mukherjee
Affective Eugenics
This conceptual-speculative article examines political polarization as a deliberate strategy of affective governance in an age defined by mass dispossession and ecological collapse. We argue that polarization should not be treated as a temporary crisis to be resolved but as a governing technology that organizes fragmentation, consolidates elite power, and deflects attention away from demands for structural transformation. To theorize this dynamic…
Digital Education and Society (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)