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Information on the academic, peer-reviewed journals 'Theory, Culture & Society' and 'Body & Society', as well as the TCS Book Series.
Information on the academic, peer-reviewed journals 'Theory, Culture & Society' and 'Body & Society', as well as the TCS Book Series.
ICYMI: Nikolas Rose, Rasmus Birk & Nick Manning, 'Towards Neuroecosociality: Mental Health in Adversity' - explores human inhabitation and examines conceptual developments that ‘deconstruct’ the binary distinction between organism and environment. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Towards Neuroecosociality: Mental Health in Adversity - Nikolas Rose, Rasmus Birk, Nick Manning, 2022
Social theory has much to gain from taking up the challenges of conceptualizing ‘mental health’. Such an approach to the stunting of human mental life in condit...
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November 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
ICYMI: Nikolas Rose, Rasmus Birk & Nick Manning, 'Towards Neuroecosociality: Mental Health in Adversity' - explores human inhabitation and examines conceptual developments that ‘deconstruct’ the binary distinction between organism and environment. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
From the Archive: a think-piece by Christina Scharff on 'Gender and Neoliberalism: Exploring the Exclusions and Contours of Neoliberal Subjectivities'. (2014) www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/christi...
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Gender and Neoliberalism: Exploring the Exclusions and Contours of Neoliberal Subjectivities Christina Scharff
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November 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
From the Archive: a think-piece by Christina Scharff on 'Gender and Neoliberalism: Exploring the Exclusions and Contours of Neoliberal Subjectivities'. (2014) www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/christi...
From the Archive: Couze Venn, 'Cultural Theory, Biopolitics, and the Question of Power' - displaces the terrain upon which the question of power in modern societies has been framed by reference to the concept of hegemony. (2007) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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From the Archive: Couze Venn, 'Cultural Theory, Biopolitics, and the Question of Power' - displaces the terrain upon which the question of power in modern societies has been framed by reference to the concept of hegemony. (2007) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Giuseppe Longo, 'Letter to Turing' - a personal, yet scientific, letter to Alan Turing, reflecting on his personality in order to better understand his scientific quest; and focusing on the impact of his work today. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
ICYMI: Giuseppe Longo, 'Letter to Turing' - a personal, yet scientific, letter to Alan Turing, reflecting on his personality in order to better understand his scientific quest; and focusing on the impact of his work today. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Nicholas Thoburn, 'Patterns of Production: Cultural Studies after Hegemony' - situating the discussion in the frame of Deleuze's figure of 'control society', the article explores the overlapping themes of communication, affect, fear, work, class and war. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
ICYMI: Nicholas Thoburn, 'Patterns of Production: Cultural Studies after Hegemony' - situating the discussion in the frame of Deleuze's figure of 'control society', the article explores the overlapping themes of communication, affect, fear, work, class and war. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Richard Rogers, 'Mapping and the Politics of Web Space' - concerns efforts to see politics in web space using a network-topological approach in which the mappings of web space have resulted in specific political geometries. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
From the Archive: Richard Rogers, 'Mapping and the Politics of Web Space' - concerns efforts to see politics in web space using a network-topological approach in which the mappings of web space have resulted in specific political geometries. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
New as Online First in Body & Society: Jorge Poveda Yánez, Beatriz Herrera Corado and Annelies Van Assche, 'Presence Rewired: The Re-materialisation of Digital Dance from the Sweatshop to the Pixel'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Presence Rewired: The Re-materialisation of Digital Dance from the Sweatshop to the Pixel - Jorge Poveda Yánez, Beatriz Herrera Corado, Annelies Van Assche, 2025
This article examines digital dance, not in opposition to physical bodies but in material continuity with them. By offering an expansive notion of ‘presence’ in...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
New as Online First in Body & Society: Jorge Poveda Yánez, Beatriz Herrera Corado and Annelies Van Assche, 'Presence Rewired: The Re-materialisation of Digital Dance from the Sweatshop to the Pixel'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
From the Archive: Adam Arvidsson, 'Facebook and Finance: On the Social Logic of the Derivative' - suggests that Facebook embodies a new logic of capitalist governance, what has been termed the ‘social logic of the derivative’. (2016) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
From the Archive: Adam Arvidsson, 'Facebook and Finance: On the Social Logic of the Derivative' - suggests that Facebook embodies a new logic of capitalist governance, what has been termed the ‘social logic of the derivative’. (2016) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
New as Online First in Body & Society: Claire Horn, 'The Artificial Womb: Foetal Personhood and Reproductive Futures'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
New as Online First in Body & Society: Claire Horn, 'The Artificial Womb: Foetal Personhood and Reproductive Futures'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
From the Archive: Ulrich Beck, 'The Cosmopolitan Society and Its Enemies' - looks at transformation in the understanding of space-time, identity, production paradigms, and the resulting consequences for key sociological concepts like class and power. (2002) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
From the Archive: Ulrich Beck, 'The Cosmopolitan Society and Its Enemies' - looks at transformation in the understanding of space-time, identity, production paradigms, and the resulting consequences for key sociological concepts like class and power. (2002) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Martin Hand and Barry Sandywell, 'E-Topia as Cosmopolis or Citadel: On the Democratizing and De-Democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, toward a Critique of the New Technological Fetishism'. (2002) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
E-Topia as Cosmopolis or Citadel - Martin Hand, Barry Sandywell, 2002
We present a critical appraisal of the impact of the Internet (and related information technologies) upon processes of democratization and de-democratization in...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
From the Archive: Martin Hand and Barry Sandywell, 'E-Topia as Cosmopolis or Citadel: On the Democratizing and De-Democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, toward a Critique of the New Technological Fetishism'. (2002) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Donald Mark C. Ude, 'Coloniality, Epistemic Imbalance, and Africa’s Emigration Crisis' - presents an analysis of 'coloniality' that accounts for the epistemic imbalance in the modern world. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Coloniality, Epistemic Imbalance, and Africa’s Emigration Crisis - Donald Mark C. Ude, 2022
The paper has two complementary objectives. First, it sustains an analysis of the concept of ‘coloniality’ that accounts for the epistemic imbalance in the mode...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
ICYMI: Donald Mark C. Ude, 'Coloniality, Epistemic Imbalance, and Africa’s Emigration Crisis' - presents an analysis of 'coloniality' that accounts for the epistemic imbalance in the modern world. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Gabriel O. Apata, '‘I Can't Breathe’: The Suffocating Nature of Racism - aims to show how racism shifted from the black body as the visible and material target of racial oppression to air/breath. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
ICYMI: Gabriel O. Apata, '‘I Can't Breathe’: The Suffocating Nature of Racism - aims to show how racism shifted from the black body as the visible and material target of racial oppression to air/breath. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Bronislaw Szerszynski, 'Reading and Writing the Weather' - argues that an adequate response to climate change requires an overcoming of the metaphysics of presence that is structuring our relationship with the weather. (Free Access) (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Reading and Writing the Weather - Bronislaw Szerszynski, 2010
In this article I argue that an adequate response to climate change requires an overcoming of the metaphysics of presence that is structuring our relationship w...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
From the Archive: Bronislaw Szerszynski, 'Reading and Writing the Weather' - argues that an adequate response to climate change requires an overcoming of the metaphysics of presence that is structuring our relationship with the weather. (Free Access) (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Rebecca Oxley and Andrew Russell, 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World' - addresses the lacuna that exists in the examination of the meanings and embodiment of breath as a theme in the humanitics and social sciences. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World - Rebecca Oxley, Andrew Russell, 2020
Breath, the ephemeral materialization of air at the interface of body and world, engages with and alters the quality of both. As a process of inhalation and exh...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
ICYMI: Rebecca Oxley and Andrew Russell, 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World' - addresses the lacuna that exists in the examination of the meanings and embodiment of breath as a theme in the humanitics and social sciences. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
From the Archive: Maria Tamboukou, 'Love, Narratives, Politics: Encounters between Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg' - explore relationships between love and politics by looking into Rosa Luxemburg’s letters to her lover and comrade, Leo Jogiches.(2013) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Love, Narratives, Politics: Encounters between Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg - Maria Tamboukou, 2013
In this article I explore relationships between love and politics by looking into Rosa Luxemburg’s letters to her lover and comrade Leo Jogiches. My discussion ...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
From the Archive: Maria Tamboukou, 'Love, Narratives, Politics: Encounters between Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg' - explore relationships between love and politics by looking into Rosa Luxemburg’s letters to her lover and comrade, Leo Jogiches.(2013) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Aleksandra Kaminska, 'The Intrinsic Value of Valuable Paper: On the Infrastructural Work of Authentication Devices' - explores authentication devices that are read, assessed, and trusted as paper things are circulated. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The Intrinsic Value of Valuable Paper: On the Infrastructural Work of Authentication Devices - Aleksandra Kaminska, 2020
Authentication devices transform cheap paper into legitimate documents. They are the sensory, informational, and computational features that make up valuable pa...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
ICYMI: Aleksandra Kaminska, 'The Intrinsic Value of Valuable Paper: On the Infrastructural Work of Authentication Devices' - explores authentication devices that are read, assessed, and trusted as paper things are circulated. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Nigel Dodd, 'Simmel’s Perfect Money: Fiction, Socialism and Utopia in The Philosophy of Money' - explores the notion of ‘perfect’ money that Simmel introduces in 'The Philosophy of Money'. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Simmel’s Perfect Money: Fiction, Socialism and Utopia in The Philosophy of Money - Nigel Dodd, 2012
This article explores the notion of ‘perfect’ money that Simmel introduces in The Philosophy of Money. Its aim is twofold: first, to connect this idea to his mo...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
From the Archive: Nigel Dodd, 'Simmel’s Perfect Money: Fiction, Socialism and Utopia in The Philosophy of Money' - explores the notion of ‘perfect’ money that Simmel introduces in 'The Philosophy of Money'. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Eva Horn, 'Logics of Political Secrecy' - argues that the repression of secrecy in modern democracies falls short of a substantial understanding of the structure and workings of political secrecy. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Logics of Political Secrecy - Eva Horn, 2011
In the modern age, the political secret has acquired a bad reputation. With modern democracy’s ideal of transparency, political secrecy is identified with polit...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
From the Archive: Eva Horn, 'Logics of Political Secrecy' - argues that the repression of secrecy in modern democracies falls short of a substantial understanding of the structure and workings of political secrecy. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Brice Laurent, 'Latour and the Question of Politics: A Constitutional Reading' - traces a path through Bruno Latour’s reflections on politics to propose a constitutional reading, which makes ontological and normative lines of investigation intersect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
ICYMI: Brice Laurent, 'Latour and the Question of Politics: A Constitutional Reading' - traces a path through Bruno Latour’s reflections on politics to propose a constitutional reading, which makes ontological and normative lines of investigation intersect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Dariusz Gafijczuk, 'Crisis, Experience, ‘Excentricity’' - explores the relationship between crisis and experience, concentrating on ‘excentric positionality’ in relation to the shared world, as presented in the work of Helmuth Plessner. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Crisis, Experience, ‘Excentricity’ - Dariusz Gafijczuk, 2024
This paper explores the relationship between crisis and experience, concentrating on ‘excentric positionality’ in relation to the shared world, as presented in ...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
ICYMI: Dariusz Gafijczuk, 'Crisis, Experience, ‘Excentricity’' - explores the relationship between crisis and experience, concentrating on ‘excentric positionality’ in relation to the shared world, as presented in the work of Helmuth Plessner. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
From the Archive: Sarah Kember, 'Metamorphoses: The Myth of Evolutionary Possibility' - takes as its starting point and its main problematic the status of evolution as a ‘sterile belief’ in contemporary technoscientific culture. (2005) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Metamorphoses - Sarah Kember, 2005
This article takes as its starting point and its main problematic the status of evolution as a ‘sterile belief’ in contemporary technoscientific...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
From the Archive: Sarah Kember, 'Metamorphoses: The Myth of Evolutionary Possibility' - takes as its starting point and its main problematic the status of evolution as a ‘sterile belief’ in contemporary technoscientific culture. (2005) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
New as Online First: Outi Kähäri and Elina Turjanmaa, 'Embodied Memory and the Social Trauma of Family Separation: A Case Study of the Ingrian Diaspora'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Embodied Memory and the Social Trauma of Family Separation: A Case Study of the Ingrian Diaspora - Outi Kähäri, Elina Turjanmaa, 2025
In this article, we explore how the descendants of displaced Ingrians relate to historical forced migrations and family separation by analysing their embodied f...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
New as Online First: Outi Kähäri and Elina Turjanmaa, 'Embodied Memory and the Social Trauma of Family Separation: A Case Study of the Ingrian Diaspora'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
From the Archive: Erik Mygind du Plessis and Pelle Korsbæk Sørensen, 'An Interview with Arlie Russell Hochschild: Critique and the Sociology of Emotions: Fear, Neoliberalism and the Acid Rainproof Fish'. (2017) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
An Interview with Arlie Russell Hochschild: Critique and the Sociology of Emotions: Fear, Neoliberalism and the Acid Rainproof Fish - Erik Mygind du Plessis, Pelle Korsbæk Sørensen, 2017
Arlie Russell Hochschild is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include: The Managed Heart (1983), The Second Sh...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
From the Archive: Erik Mygind du Plessis and Pelle Korsbæk Sørensen, 'An Interview with Arlie Russell Hochschild: Critique and the Sociology of Emotions: Fear, Neoliberalism and the Acid Rainproof Fish'. (2017) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Caroline Gatt, 'Breathing beyond Embodiment: Exploring Emergence, Grieving and Song in Laboratory Theatre' - addresses questions of the place of semantic meaning and conscious thought in performance practice/theories. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Breathing beyond Embodiment: Exploring Emergence, Grieving and Song in Laboratory Theatre - Caroline Gatt, 2020
Due to the simultaneous linguistic and musical quality of voicing, voiced breath poses theoretical challenges to notions of ‘embodiment’, especially as they are...
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November 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
ICYMI: Caroline Gatt, 'Breathing beyond Embodiment: Exploring Emergence, Grieving and Song in Laboratory Theatre' - addresses questions of the place of semantic meaning and conscious thought in performance practice/theories. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...