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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: Alessandro Jedlowski, 'Chinese Television in Africa' - analyses the fluid and fragmentary dimension of the engagements between Chinese media and African publics, while equally emphasizing the power dynamics that underlie them. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
ICYMI: Alessandro Jedlowski, 'Chinese Television in Africa' - analyses the fluid and fragmentary dimension of the engagements between Chinese media and African publics, while equally emphasizing the power dynamics that underlie them. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Andrew Goffey, 'Abstract Experience' - explores the challenges that Alfred North Whitehead's approach to experience, deliberately contrasted with the subject-object thinking of modernity, creates. (2008) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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From the Archive: Andrew Goffey, 'Abstract Experience' - explores the challenges that Alfred North Whitehead's approach to experience, deliberately contrasted with the subject-object thinking of modernity, creates. (2008) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Cristián Simonetti, 'Viscosity in Matter, Life and Sociality: The Case of Glacial Ice' - explores the concept of viscosity, attending to how it has impacted on understandings of matter, as well as broader social and cultural issues. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
ICYMI: Cristián Simonetti, 'Viscosity in Matter, Life and Sociality: The Case of Glacial Ice' - explores the concept of viscosity, attending to how it has impacted on understandings of matter, as well as broader social and cultural issues. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Body & Society Archive: Hannah Landecker, 'Antibiotic Resistance and the Biology of History' - foregrounds the importance of understanding the materiality of history and the historicity of matter in theories and concepts of life. (2015) (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Antibiotic Resistance and the Biology of History - Hannah Landecker, 2016
Beginning in the 1940s, mass production of antibiotics involved the industrial-scale growth of microorganisms to harvest their metabolic products. Unfortunately...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
From the Body & Society Archive: Hannah Landecker, 'Antibiotic Resistance and the Biology of History' - foregrounds the importance of understanding the materiality of history and the historicity of matter in theories and concepts of life. (2015) (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
From the Archive: John Urry, 'The ‘System’ of Automobility' -
conceptualizes and theorizes the nature of the ‘car system’ that is a particularly key, if surprisingly neglected, element in ‘globalization’. (2004) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
conceptualizes and theorizes the nature of the ‘car system’ that is a particularly key, if surprisingly neglected, element in ‘globalization’. (2004) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
From the Archive: John Urry, 'The ‘System’ of Automobility' -
conceptualizes and theorizes the nature of the ‘car system’ that is a particularly key, if surprisingly neglected, element in ‘globalization’. (2004) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
conceptualizes and theorizes the nature of the ‘car system’ that is a particularly key, if surprisingly neglected, element in ‘globalization’. (2004) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
ICYMI: Iram Khawaja, Dorthe Staunæs and Mante Vertelyte, 'How Racial Matter Comes to Matter: Memory Work, Animacy and Childhood Dolls' - explores how memories of childhood dolls can inform us about formations of race, racialisation and Whiteness.
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ICYMI: Iram Khawaja, Dorthe Staunæs and Mante Vertelyte, 'How Racial Matter Comes to Matter: Memory Work, Animacy and Childhood Dolls' - explores how memories of childhood dolls can inform us about formations of race, racialisation and Whiteness.
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ICYMI: Adam Hayes, 'The Socio-Technological Lives of Bitcoin' - argues that cryptocurrencies and blockchains are important objects of general social science research and thought, but not for their ‘moneyness’ per se. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The Socio-Technological Lives of Bitcoin - Adam Hayes, 2019
Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and blockchains have become buzzwords in the media and are attracting increasing academic interest, mainly from the fields of compute...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
ICYMI: Adam Hayes, 'The Socio-Technological Lives of Bitcoin' - argues that cryptocurrencies and blockchains are important objects of general social science research and thought, but not for their ‘moneyness’ per se. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Robert Biel, 'Visioning a Sustainable Energy Future: The Case of Urban Food-Growing' - outlines a future where society re-energizes itself by recapturing creative dynamism and applying creativity to meeting physical energy needs. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Visioning a Sustainable Energy Future: The Case of Urban Food-Growing - Robert Biel, 2014
This article outlines a future where society re-energizes itself, in the sense both of recapturing creative dynamism and of applying creativity to meeting physi...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
From the Archive: Robert Biel, 'Visioning a Sustainable Energy Future: The Case of Urban Food-Growing' - outlines a future where society re-energizes itself by recapturing creative dynamism and applying creativity to meeting physical energy needs. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Caroline Wilson-Barnao, Alex Bevan and Robyn Lincoln, 'Women’s Bodies and the Evolution of Anti-rape Technologies: From the Hoop Skirt to the Smart Frock' - explores deterrents and their precedents marketed for the purpose of preventing harassment. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
ICYMI: Caroline Wilson-Barnao, Alex Bevan and Robyn Lincoln, 'Women’s Bodies and the Evolution of Anti-rape Technologies: From the Hoop Skirt to the Smart Frock' - explores deterrents and their precedents marketed for the purpose of preventing harassment. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Scott Lash, 'Capitalism and Metaphysics' - contrasts a ‘physical’ capitalism - of the national and manufacturing age - with a ‘metaphysical capitalism’ of the global information society'. (2007) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
From the Archive: Scott Lash, 'Capitalism and Metaphysics' - contrasts a ‘physical’ capitalism - of the national and manufacturing age - with a ‘metaphysical capitalism’ of the global information society'. (2007) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jean Grondin, 'Looking Back with Gadamer Over his Writings and their Effective History: A Dialogue with Jean Grondin (1996)'. (2006) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
From the Archive: Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jean Grondin, 'Looking Back with Gadamer Over his Writings and their Effective History: A Dialogue with Jean Grondin (1996)'. (2006) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Jennifer Mae Hamilton, 'Affect Theory and Breast Cancer Memoirs: Rescripting Fears of Death and Dying in the Anthropocene' - reads iconic feminist breast cancer memoirs for their complex representations of affect, in particular fear, in relation to death. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
ICYMI: Jennifer Mae Hamilton, 'Affect Theory and Breast Cancer Memoirs: Rescripting Fears of Death and Dying in the Anthropocene' - reads iconic feminist breast cancer memoirs for their complex representations of affect, in particular fear, in relation to death. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Hans-Günter Semsek and Georg Stauth, 'Contemporary Processes within System, Cultures and Life Worlds: Some Reflections on Colonization and Resistance in Everyday Life'. (1988) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
From the Archive: Hans-Günter Semsek and Georg Stauth, 'Contemporary Processes within System, Cultures and Life Worlds: Some Reflections on Colonization and Resistance in Everyday Life'. (1988) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Terry Maley, 'The Relevance of Herbert Marcuse’s Thought Today: Or the Historical Fate of Bourgeois Democracy in and Beyond the Neoliberal Era' - engages Herbert Marcuse’s work from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s (his New Left period and just after). journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The Relevance of Herbert Marcuse’s Thought Today: Or the Historical Fate of Bourgeois Democracy in and Beyond the Neoliberal Era - Terry Maley, 2021
This article engages Herbert Marcuse’s work from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s (his New Left period and just after) and puts it into dialogue with current ra...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
ICYMI: Terry Maley, 'The Relevance of Herbert Marcuse’s Thought Today: Or the Historical Fate of Bourgeois Democracy in and Beyond the Neoliberal Era' - engages Herbert Marcuse’s work from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s (his New Left period and just after). journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Miranda P. Dotson and Marc Lafrance, 'Engineering the Skin: Embodied Experiences of Healing from Acne Among YouTube Vloggers' - explores how adult vloggers understand their embodied experiences of acne. (Free Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
ICYMI: Miranda P. Dotson and Marc Lafrance, 'Engineering the Skin: Embodied Experiences of Healing from Acne Among YouTube Vloggers' - explores how adult vloggers understand their embodied experiences of acne. (Free Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
From the Archive: Saskia Sassen, 'When the City Itself Becomes a Technology of War' - focuses on Mumbai and Gaza as two sites that help us understand the variability of war once it gets urbanized, and thus the multiplicity of types of asymmetric war. (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
When the City Itself Becomes a Technology of War - Saskia Sassen, 2010
The essay is framed by the proposition that cities are the frontier spaces for much of what is usually referred to as global governance challeng...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
From the Archive: Saskia Sassen, 'When the City Itself Becomes a Technology of War' - focuses on Mumbai and Gaza as two sites that help us understand the variability of war once it gets urbanized, and thus the multiplicity of types of asymmetric war. (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Muneeb Hafiz, 'Smashing the Imperial Frame: Race, Culture, (De)Coloniality' - explores the imperial frame – a racialized and racializing vision of singularity/alterity – that was foundational to European modernity and the formation of the modern world. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Smashing the Imperial Frame: Race, Culture, (De)Coloniality - Muneeb Hafiz, 2020
Extending the philosopher Achille Mbembe’s notion of the ‘seeing power of race’ in Critique of Black Reason, this paper explores the imperial frame – a racializ...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
ICYMI: Muneeb Hafiz, 'Smashing the Imperial Frame: Race, Culture, (De)Coloniality' - explores the imperial frame – a racialized and racializing vision of singularity/alterity – that was foundational to European modernity and the formation of the modern world. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Jakob Arnoldi, 'Computer Algorithms, Market Manipulation and the Institutionalization of High Frequency Trading' - discusses the use of algorithmic models in finance (algo or high frequency trading). (2015) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Computer Algorithms, Market Manipulation and the Institutionalization of High Frequency Trading - Jakob Arnoldi, 2016
The article discusses the use of algorithmic models in finance (algo or high frequency trading). Algo trading is widespread but also somewhat controversial in m...
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November 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
From the Archive: Jakob Arnoldi, 'Computer Algorithms, Market Manipulation and the Institutionalization of High Frequency Trading' - discusses the use of algorithmic models in finance (algo or high frequency trading). (2015) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Gabrielle Ivinson and EJ Renold speculate on the relation between gender body-practices and the history of place (communities), inspired by Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Erin Manning. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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November 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
ICYMI: Gabrielle Ivinson and EJ Renold speculate on the relation between gender body-practices and the history of place (communities), inspired by Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Erin Manning. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
From the Archive: Jonathan Bach and David Stark, 'Link, Search, Interact: The Co-Evolution of NGOs and Interactive Technology' - explores the prospect of shifts among NGOs from information transmission to knowledge networks in the virtual public sphere. (2004) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
From the Archive: Jonathan Bach and David Stark, 'Link, Search, Interact: The Co-Evolution of NGOs and Interactive Technology' - explores the prospect of shifts among NGOs from information transmission to knowledge networks in the virtual public sphere. (2004) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: William E. Connolly, 'Walter Lippmann, Neoliberalism, and the Gathering Storm' - based on Barbara Stiegler's 'Adapt!: On a New Political Imperative', which reveals how neoliberalism in the 1930s took the shape of an entire social philosophy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
ICYMI: William E. Connolly, 'Walter Lippmann, Neoliberalism, and the Gathering Storm' - based on Barbara Stiegler's 'Adapt!: On a New Political Imperative', which reveals how neoliberalism in the 1930s took the shape of an entire social philosophy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Rudy Koshar, 'Cars and Nations: Anglo-German Perspectives on Automobility between the World Wars'- argues that historically specific, transnational structures and conjunctures influence the car’s national belongingness. (2004) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
From the Archive: Rudy Koshar, 'Cars and Nations: Anglo-German Perspectives on Automobility between the World Wars'- argues that historically specific, transnational structures and conjunctures influence the car’s national belongingness. (2004) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Max Stadler, 'Primordial Haptics, 1925–1935: Hands, Tools and the Psychotechnics of Prehistory' - draws on the proto-ergonomic project of Friedrich Herig and discusses the significance of ‘matters of touch’ for ‘matters of tools’ and ‘matters of labour’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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October 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
ICYMI: Max Stadler, 'Primordial Haptics, 1925–1935: Hands, Tools and the Psychotechnics of Prehistory' - draws on the proto-ergonomic project of Friedrich Herig and discusses the significance of ‘matters of touch’ for ‘matters of tools’ and ‘matters of labour’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
From the Archive: Fritjof Capra, 'Complexity and Life' - reviews the basic concepts, achievements and status of complexity theory from the perspective of the new understanding of biological life. (2005) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Complexity and Life - Fritjof Capra, 2005
During the last two decades, a new understanding of life emerged at the forefront of science.The development of complexity theory, technically k...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
From the Archive: Fritjof Capra, 'Complexity and Life' - reviews the basic concepts, achievements and status of complexity theory from the perspective of the new understanding of biological life. (2005) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, 'Decolonial and Ontological Challenges in Social and Anthropological Theory' - examines the conceptual and methodological points of convergence and divergence of the decolonial and ontological turns in social theory. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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October 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
ICYMI: Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, 'Decolonial and Ontological Challenges in Social and Anthropological Theory' - examines the conceptual and methodological points of convergence and divergence of the decolonial and ontological turns in social theory. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...