ICYMI: Rainer Diaz-Bone, '‘Enrichment’ as a Pragmatist and Structuralist Contribution to Economic Sociology: Perspectives on the Approach of Economics and Sociology of Conventions'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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From the Archive: 'Memory Museum and Museum Text: Intermediality in Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum and W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz' by Silke Arnold-de Simine, from the TCS Special Section on 'Memory, Community and the New Museum'. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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ICYMI: Pang Laikwan, 'China’s Post-Socialist Governmentality and the Garlic Chives Meme: Economic Sovereignty and Biopolitical Subjects'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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From the Archive: Julian Henriques, 'Rhythmic Bodies: Amplification, Inflection and Transduction in the Dance Performance Techniques of the “Bashment Gal"' - explores the rhythmic body with the example of the embodiment of the ‘bashment gal’. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Rhythmic Bodies: Amplification, Inflection and Transduction in the Dance Performance Techniques of the “Bashment Gal” - Julian Henriques, 2014

This article explores the rhythmic body with the example of the embodiment of the ‘bashment gal’ and the role she plays in the dancehall sound system session. I...

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Event: TCS Research Workshop - 'Intelligence: Computation or Symbolic Form?' - What do we mean by intelligence? Leading thinkers explore computation, symbols, biology, technology and meaning in the age of AI. www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/intelli...

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From the Archive: Ryan Bishop and John W.P. Phillips, 'Baudrillard and the Evil Genius' - commemorates Jean Baudrillard’s career with an account of the consistency of his interventionist logic and the subtlety of his styles of argument. (2007) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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ICYMI: Emre Sünter, 'Interview with Brian Massumi: from the Ecology of Powers to an Aesthetics of the Earth' - proposes a politics of potential that is diagnostic rather than prescriptive yet encourages experimentation towards a postcapitalist future. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Interview with Brian Massumi: From the Ecology of Powers to an Aesthetics of the Earth - Emre Sünter, 2022

In this interview, Brian Massumi discusses the possibility of a collective practice of experimentation beyond the infernal alternatives between the state author...

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From the Archive: Koushik Banerjea, 'Sounds of Whose Underground?: The Fine Tuning of Diaspora in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction'. (2000) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Sounds of Whose Underground? - Koushik Banerjea, 2000

The piece contrasts the functioning realities of the British Asian diaspora - music, violence, sex, food, life - with the institutionalized production of knowle...

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From the Archive: Roberta Sassatelli, 'Interview with Laura Mulvey: Gender, Gaze and Technology in Film Culture' - reconstructs Mulvey’s work, from her essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ to her reflections on male gaze and visual culture. (2011) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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New book review: Yuxiang Duan and Zhen Wang review Franka Schäfer’s 'Discourse: Event: Practice. Research Program based on the Concept of Events to Overcome the Dichotomy between Theories of Discourse and Practice'. (Free to read) www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/review-...

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ICYMI: Mianna Meskus, Venla Oikkonen and Maria Temmes, 'The Processuality of ‘Sex’ in Biomedicine: Exploring Stem Cell Research, Cancer Medicine and Vaccine Safety Research'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The Processuality of ‘Sex’ in Biomedicine: Exploring Stem Cell Research, Cancer Medicine and Vaccine Safety Research - Mianna Meskus, Venla Oikkonen, Maria Temmes, 2024

Incorporating sex into biomedical research is envisioned as key to addressing inequalities in health. However, feminist research suggests that it is a complicat...

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From the Archive: Nikos Papastergiadis, 'Thomas Hirschhorn and Jacques Rancière: Artists and Philosophers as Companions in the Love of the Infinitude of Thought'. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Kornelia Hahn, 'Intimacy and the Transformation of the Public Sphere' - argues that considering ‘intimacy’ and ‘public’ solely as dichotomous entities unduly limits the scope of research on intimacy. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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From the Archive: Lee Wilson, 'Jurus, Jazz Riffs and the Constitution of a National Martial Art in Indonesia' - compares different modalities of the practice and pedagogy of Sundanese Pencak Silat in West Java. (2009) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Jurus, Jazz Riffs and the Constitution of a National Martial Art in Indonesia - Lee Wilson, 2009

Pencak Silat is a martial art, performance practice and system of body cultivation prevalent throughout much of Indonesia and the Malay-speaking world. This art...

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ICYMI: Elizabeth Stephens, 'Efficiency and the Productive Body: The Gilbreths’ Photographic Motion Studies of Work' - examines the images of working bodies seen in the photographic motion studies of work undertaken by Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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From the Archive: Ash Amin, 'Multi-Ethnicity and the Idea of Europe' - explores the meaning of the ‘Idea of Europe’ in the context of a multicultural continent that increasingly draws on the presence and practices of people from non-European backgrounds. (2004) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Event: TCS Research Workshop - 'Intelligence: Computation or Symbolic Form?' - speakers include Claudia Wedepohl,Guiseppe Longo, N. Katherine Hayles, Jean Lassegue, and more. www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/intelli...

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From the Archive: Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, 'Embodiment in High-altitude Mountaineering: Sensing and Working with the Weather' - examines the lived experience of weather in one of the most extreme environments on earth: high-altitude mountains. (2018) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Embodiment in High-altitude Mountaineering: Sensing and Working with the Weather - Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, Lee Crust, Christian Swann, 2019

In order to address sociological concerns with embodiment and learning, in this article we explore the ‘weathering’ body in a currently under-researched physica...

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ICYMI: Katarina Diana Sjöblom, 'Agamben’s Politics of the Performative' - offers a critical examination of Giorgio Agamben’s vision of political liberation as it is articulated in his philosophy of language. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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From the Archive: Peter E.S. Freund, 'Social Synaesthesia: Expressive Bodies, Embodied Charisma' - introduces the notion of social synaesthesia as a means of theorizing about mindbody—society relationships. (2009) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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ICYMI: Joshua Reeves and Ethan Stoneman, 'From the Confessional Booth to Digital Enclosures: Absolution as Cultural Technique' - examines the confessional booth as an architected space that prefigures digital forms of data capture and production. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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From the Archive: Nancy Fraser, 'Recognition without Ethics?' - proposes an analysis of gender that is broad enough to house the full range of feminist concerns. (2001) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Tiziana Terranova and Denise Ferreira da Silva, 'A Treatment of the Idea(l) of the Commons: A Conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A Treatment of the Idea(l) of the Commons: A Conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva - Tiziana Terranova, Denise Ferreira da Silva, 2026

In the 2010s, the theme of the commons operated across different critiques of the global capitalist economy, helping to articulate alternatives for a fragmented...

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From the Archive: Mickey Vallee, 'Technology, Embodiment, and Affect in Voice Sciences: The Voice is an Imaginary Organ' - focuses on ‘voice imaging’ as a technical field where people experience new relations between organic and inorganic forms of life. (2017) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...?

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ICYMI: Didier Debaise, 'The Land of the Moderns: The Sense of Latour’s Pragmatism' - taking the notion of matter as its starting point, this article seeks to identify the way in which Latour shows its importance in the constitution of modern thought. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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The latest issue of Body & Society is now available with articles on the biopolitics of public health science concerning antibiotic prophylaxis and queer bodies; dance, affect and the Dutch colonial past, and more. journals.sagepub.com/toc/boda/32/3

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Free to read: 'The Rise of the Chatbot Professor', a think-piece by Christof Royer. www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/christo...

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From the Archive: Erich Hörl, 'Luhmann, the Non-trivial Machine and the Neocybernetic Regime of Truth' - attempts to reconstruct Luhmann’s redescription of European rationality, especially the media - and machine-historical conditions. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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From the Archive: Eva Giraud and Gregory Hollin, 'Care, Laboratory Beagles and Affective Utopia' - focuses on the ambivalent role of care within the first large-scale experimental beagle colony at the University of California, Davis (1951–86). (2016) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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ICYMI: Blaz Skerjanec, 'More Sex, Less Identity: Towards a Naturalistic Queer Theory' - identifies two strands of thinking about sexuality and identity within queer theory: culturalist and naturalist. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

More Sex, Less Identity: Towards a Naturalistic Queer Theory - Blaz Skerjanec, 2024

This article identifies two strands of thinking about sexuality and identity within queer theory: culturalist and naturalist. First, the article critically asse...

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