From the Archive: Eva Illouz, 'The Lost Innocence of Love: Romance as a Postmodern Condition' - examines the relationship between `mass media' representations of love and a model of love which we commonly view as more `realistic'. (1998) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Lost Innocence of Love - Eva Illouz, 1998

This article examines the relationship between `mass media' representations of love and a model of love which we commonly view as more `realistic', th...

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ICYMI: Jakko Kemper, 'Deep Time and Microtime: Anthropocene Temporalities and Silicon Valley’s Longtermist Scope' - asserts that the temporalities of deep time and microtime increasingly impact contemporary existence. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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ICYMI: Eric-John Russell, 'Guy Debord, an Untimely Aristocrat' - excavates the pre-capitalist influences of the thought of Guy Debord, French postwar critical theorist and founding member of the Situationist International. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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From the Archive: Tomoko Tamari, 'Body Image and Prosthetic Aesthetics: Disability, Technology and Paralympic Culture' - examines how the modern discourse of prostheses has shifted from the made-up and camouflaged body to the empowered and exhibited body. (2017) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Body Image and Prosthetic Aesthetics - Tomoko Tamari, 2017

The success of the London 2012 Paralympic Games not only revealed new public possibilities for the disabled, but also thrust the debates on the relationship bet...

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ICYMI: Irma Kinga Allen, 'Thinking with a Feminist Political Ecology of Air-and-breathing-bodies'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Thinking with a Feminist Political Ecology of Air-and-breathing-bodies - Irma Kinga Allen, 2020

Social theory has paid little attention to air, despite its centrality to bodily existence and air pollution being named the world’s biggest public health crisi...

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From the Archive: Allen J. Scott, 'French Cinema: Economy, Policy and Place in the Making of a Cultural-Products Industry' - deals with issues of industrial survival and competitiveness in the new global economy. (2000) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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From the Archive: Jan Nederveen Pieterse, 'Globalization North and South: Representations of Uneven Development and the Interaction of Modernities'. (2000) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Globalization North and South - Jan Nederveen Pieterse, 2000

The buzzword is globalization and the key problem is uneven development. Perceptions and representations of globalization are profoundly different in North and ...

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ICYMI: Eugene Brennan, 'Necropolitics and Surplus Life: Mbembe and Beyond' - argues that Achille Mbembe’s work allows us to develop a critique of sacrifice that at the same time (contra Agamben) recognizes how it plays a structural role within necropolitics. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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ICYMI: Dean MacCannell, 'Alienated Leisure: Reflections on 'The Tourist' - argues for new cultural and psychoanalytic frameworks to analyse capitalism’s shift from alienated labor to alienated leisure as its primary engine of profitability. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Alienated Leisure: Reflections on The Tourist - Dean MacCannell, 2024

The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class was published in 1976 and has been republished in multiple printings, editions and translations. The original Eng...

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From the Archive: Kwok Wei Leng, 'On the Proper Status of Unspeakably Bad Objects: Universalism in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysis in Feminism' - examines theoretical objects of feminism with a view towards a reinvigorated dialogue with psychoanalysis. (2000) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

On the Proper Status of Unspeakably Bad Objects - Kwok Wei Leng, 2000

This article examines some recent theoretical objects of feminism with a view towards a reinvigorated dialogue with psychoanalysis. Against the backdrop of deba...

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ICYMI: Aideen Catherine O’Shaughnessy, 'On the Embodied Experience of Anti-abortion Laws and Regulations: The Gendered Burden of ‘Abortion Work’. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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From the Archive: Karin Knorr Cetina and Urs Bruegger, 'Traders’ Engagement with Markets' - focuses upon the construction of wants and the embodying of the market in the work routines of workers on the Swiss foreign exchange market. (2002) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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New As Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Simon Lumsden, 'Animal Domestication, World History and Multispecies Relations'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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From the Archive: Wolfgang Ernst, 'From Media History to Zeitkritik' - discusses the different approaches to cultural techniques, taking into consideration the specific time-critical and epistemic implications of technical media. (2013) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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ICYMI: Isabelle Stengers, 'With and after the 'Inquiry': How Do We Pragmatically Move from the Moderns to the Contemporaries?' - addresses the concern Latour expressed at the end of his life: has his 'Inquiry' a future in the new climatic regime? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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From the Special Issue Archive: Jennifer Lea, 'Liberation or Limitation? Understanding Iyengar Yoga as a Practice of the Self' - explores the Foucauldian notions of practices of the self, read via Deleuze, in the context of Iyengar yoga. (2009) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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New as Online First: Robert Topinka, 'Ambient Extremism in Reactionary Digital Politics' - introduces the theory of 'ambient extremism', where the distinction between the extreme and the mainstream has collapsed, suffusing political atmospheres with extremism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...?

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From the Archive: Ori Schwarz, 'The New Hunter-gatherers: Making Human Interaction Productive in the Network Society' - discusses techno-social practices that transform interpersonal interactions into acts of production of valuable, durable objects. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The New Hunter-gatherers: Making Human Interaction Productive in the Network Society - Ori Schwarz, 2012

The article discusses a set of emerging techno-social practices that transform interpersonal interactions into acts of production of valuable, durable objects s...

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ICYMI: Elizabeth Rahman, 'Breathing Song and Smoke: Ritual Intentionality and the Sustenance of an Interaffective Realm' - examines how resonant interaffective atmospheric conditions are induced to promote health. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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From the Archive: Mike Michael and Marsha Rosengarten, 'HIV, Globalization and Topology: Of Prepositions and Propositions' - uses the composite notion of pre/pro-positions to trace the shifting topological status of HIV. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

HIV, Globalization and Topology: Of Prepositions and Propositions - Mike Michael, Marsha Rosengarten, 2012

In this article we explore how two enactments of HIV – the UN’s AIDS Clock and clinical trials for an HIV biomedical prevention technology or pre-exposure proph...

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ICYMI: Peter Johnson, 'Michel Serres’ Neglected Political Ecology in Dialogue with Bruno Latour’s Figure of Gaia' - explores how Serres’ philosophy brings together a story of the commonality of all things. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Michel Serres’ Neglected Political Ecology in Dialogue with Bruno Latour’s Figure of Gaia - Peter Johnson, 2023

With some justification, Michel Serres claimed that he was one of the first to make ecology a central question for philosophy. Many of his books explore the eco...

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From the Archive: Hosu Kim, 'The Biopolitics of Transnational Adoption in South Korea: Preemption and the Governance of Single Birthmothers' - examines the phenomenon of single mothers giving up their babies for adoption in South Korea. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Biopolitics of Transnational Adoption in South Korea - Hosu Kim, 2015

This article examines several key aspects of maternity homes for ‘unwed mothers’ in order to understand the overwhelming phenomenon of single mothers giving up ...

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ICYMI: Bryan S. Turner, 'Does the University Have a Future?' - examines the problems facing modern universities such as their loss of independence, bureaucracy and shortage of funding. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Does the University Have a Future? - Bryan S. Turner, 2024

Although this article examines the problems facing modern universities such as their loss of independence and shortage of funding, similar problems faced univer...

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From the Archive: Lisa Jones (Translator), 'Power and Violence by Paul Ricoeur' - addresses the political thought of Hannah Arendt, taking as his starting point her paper ‘On Violence’, and her treatment of the conceptual pair power and violence. (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Power and Violence by Paul Ricoeur - Lisa Jones, 2010

In this article, from his Lectures I: Autour du politique, Ricoeur addresses and subjects to critical examination the political thought of Hannah...

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ICYMI: Laura Perler and Carolin Schurr, 'Intimate Lives in the Global Bioeconomy: Reproductive Biographies of Mexican Egg Donors' - suggests analysing ‘reproductive biographies’ as a way to understand the entanglements of the global bioeconomy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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From the Archive: Stephen Pritchard, 'An Essential Marking: Maori Tattooing and the Properties of Identity' - examines problems centring on the theorization of cultural identity by reference to debates about the appropriation of the Maori `tattoo'. (2001) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

An Essential Marking - Stephen Pritchard, 2001

This article examines a range of problems centring on the theorization of cultural identity and cultural property by reference to debates about the appropriatio...

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ICYMI: Video abstract - Stuart Elden introduces the article 'Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker'. (Open Access) www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/video-s...

Video: Stuart Elden on 'Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker' — Theory, Culture & Society | Global Public Life

Stuart Elden introduces his Theory, Culture & Society article ‘ Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker ‘ (Open Access) from the upcoming Special Issue on ‘Foucault Before th...

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From the Archive: Philippe Bourgois, 'Just Another Night in a Shooting Gallery' - an ethnographic account of a night spent in an African-American heroin shooting gallery in East Harlem.(1998) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Just Another Night in a Shooting Gallery - Philippe Bourgois, 1998

This ethnographic account of a night spent in an African-American heroin shooting gallery in East Harlem, present the details of how heroin, cocaine and crack a...

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ICYMI: Stephen D. Seely, 'Individuation, Sexuation, Technicity' - develops a theory of sexuation derived from Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy of individuation. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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From the Special Issue Archive: Azzam Tamimi, 'Islam and Democracy from Tahtawi to Ghannouchi' - explores the development of Islamic democratic thought over the past two centuries. (2007) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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