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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.
From the Archive: Alberto Spektorowski, 'Fascism and Post-National Europe: Drieu La Rochelle and Alain de Benoist'- traces the attempts to shed new light onto some of the shortcomings embedded in the concept of the ‘Europe des peoples’. (2015) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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February 6, 2026 at 11:29 PM
From the Archive: Alberto Spektorowski, 'Fascism and Post-National Europe: Drieu La Rochelle and Alain de Benoist'- traces the attempts to shed new light onto some of the shortcomings embedded in the concept of the ‘Europe des peoples’. (2015) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Antti Lindfors, 'Between Self-Tracking and Alternative Medicine: Biomimetic Imaginary in Contemporary Biohacking' - explores the implications of biohacking in the context of self-tracking culture. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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February 6, 2026 at 10:57 PM
ICYMI: Antti Lindfors, 'Between Self-Tracking and Alternative Medicine: Biomimetic Imaginary in Contemporary Biohacking' - explores the implications of biohacking in the context of self-tracking culture. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
From the Archive: Karin Knorr Cetina, 'What is a Pipe?: Obama and the Sociological Imagination' - an attempt to make sociological sense of the '08 US election - particularly the enchantment unlikely members of the American population displayed for Obama. (2009) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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February 5, 2026 at 5:44 PM
From the Archive: Karin Knorr Cetina, 'What is a Pipe?: Obama and the Sociological Imagination' - an attempt to make sociological sense of the '08 US election - particularly the enchantment unlikely members of the American population displayed for Obama. (2009) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Laura Danique Keesman, 'Primordial Brains and Bodies: How Neurobiological Discourses Shape Policing Experiences' - shows how understanding behaviour and personhood as shaped by neurobiology forms a predominant narrative among police officers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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February 5, 2026 at 5:40 PM
ICYMI: Laura Danique Keesman, 'Primordial Brains and Bodies: How Neurobiological Discourses Shape Policing Experiences' - shows how understanding behaviour and personhood as shaped by neurobiology forms a predominant narrative among police officers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
e-Special Issue - Painting / Knowledge (Memory, Trauma, Image): Patrizia Violi, 'Trauma Site Museums and Politics of Memory: Tuol Sleng, Villa Grimaldi and the Bologna Ustica Museum'. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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February 4, 2026 at 11:25 PM
e-Special Issue - Painting / Knowledge (Memory, Trauma, Image): Patrizia Violi, 'Trauma Site Museums and Politics of Memory: Tuol Sleng, Villa Grimaldi and the Bologna Ustica Museum'. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: John D. French, 'The Missteps Of Anti-Imperialist Reason: Bourdieu, Wacquant and Hanchard's Orpheus and Power' - dissects Bourdieu and Wacquant's mischaracterization of US-Brazilian dialogue on the African diaspora in the New World. (2000) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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February 4, 2026 at 11:15 PM
From the Archive: John D. French, 'The Missteps Of Anti-Imperialist Reason: Bourdieu, Wacquant and Hanchard's Orpheus and Power' - dissects Bourdieu and Wacquant's mischaracterization of US-Brazilian dialogue on the African diaspora in the New World. (2000) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Sarah J. Whatmore, 'Earthly Powers and Affective Environments: An Ontological Politics of Flood Risk' - examines the onto-politics of ‘natural’ hazard events and their capacity to force thought in those affected by them. (2013) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Earthly Powers and Affective Environments: An Ontological Politics of Flood Risk - Sarah J Whatmore, 2013
In this article I set out to trace some of the implications of recharging the political potency of nature in more-than-human terms. This shifts attention from a...
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February 3, 2026 at 11:14 PM
From the Archive: Sarah J. Whatmore, 'Earthly Powers and Affective Environments: An Ontological Politics of Flood Risk' - examines the onto-politics of ‘natural’ hazard events and their capacity to force thought in those affected by them. (2013) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Rakesh Sengupta, 'Towards a Decolonial Media Archaeology: The Absent Archive of Screenwriting History and the Obsolete Munshi'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Towards a Decolonial Media Archaeology: The Absent Archive of Screenwriting History and the Obsolete Munshi - Rakesh Sengupta, 2021
Much has been written about how Foucault's archaeology of the modern episteme, emerging from early 19th-century Europe, was curiously divorced from its con...
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February 3, 2026 at 11:04 PM
ICYMI: Rakesh Sengupta, 'Towards a Decolonial Media Archaeology: The Absent Archive of Screenwriting History and the Obsolete Munshi'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
From the Archive: Robbie Duschinsky, Monica Greco and Judith Solomon, 'The Politics of Attachment: Lines of Flight with Bowlby, Deleuze and Guattari'. (Open Access) (2015) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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February 2, 2026 at 9:28 PM
From the Archive: Robbie Duschinsky, Monica Greco and Judith Solomon, 'The Politics of Attachment: Lines of Flight with Bowlby, Deleuze and Guattari'. (Open Access) (2015) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
From the e-Special issue - Painting / Knowledge: Boris Groys, 'The Border between Word and Image' - proceeding from Lessing’s distinction between poetry and visual art, Boris Groys argues that language is not external to, but resides behind, the image. (2011) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Border between Word and Image - Boris Groys, 2011
Proceeding from Lessing’s distinction between poetry and visual art, Boris Groys argues that language is not external to, but resides behind, the image. The ima...
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February 1, 2026 at 4:56 PM
From the e-Special issue - Painting / Knowledge: Boris Groys, 'The Border between Word and Image' - proceeding from Lessing’s distinction between poetry and visual art, Boris Groys argues that language is not external to, but resides behind, the image. (2011) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New as Online First in Body & Society: Miracle-Eunice Bolorunduro reviews 'Adornment, Masquerade and African Femininity' by Ismahan Soukeyna Diop. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Ismahan Soukeyna Diop, Adornment, Masquerade and African Femininity - Miracle-Eunice Bolorunduro, 2026
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February 1, 2026 at 4:45 PM
New as Online First in Body & Society: Miracle-Eunice Bolorunduro reviews 'Adornment, Masquerade and African Femininity' by Ismahan Soukeyna Diop. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Hélène Quiniou, 'Picturing Trauma: Freud, Resilience and Visual Agency in the Neuro Sciences'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Picturing Trauma: Freud, Resilience and Visual Agency in the Neuro Sciences - Hélène Quiniou, 2026
What if cognitive neuroscience had more to do with psychoanalysis than we think? In the wake of the 13 November 2015 Paris attacks, neuroscientists have conduct...
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January 31, 2026 at 11:44 PM
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Hélène Quiniou, 'Picturing Trauma: Freud, Resilience and Visual Agency in the Neuro Sciences'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
ICYMI: Carsten Stage, 'Shame, Chronic Illness and Participatory Storytelling’ - explores the complex roles shame plays in the lives of people with one or more chronic conditions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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January 31, 2026 at 7:06 PM
ICYMI: Carsten Stage, 'Shame, Chronic Illness and Participatory Storytelling’ - explores the complex roles shame plays in the lives of people with one or more chronic conditions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Clare Birchall, 'Transparency, Interrupted: Secrets of the Left' - asks whether the value ascribed to transparency limits political thinking, particularly for the radical and socialist Left. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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January 31, 2026 at 12:19 AM
From the Archive: Clare Birchall, 'Transparency, Interrupted: Secrets of the Left' - asks whether the value ascribed to transparency limits political thinking, particularly for the radical and socialist Left. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Desiree Foerster, 'Sensing a Heartbeat: A New Perspective on Self-Tracking Technologies through the Integration of Interoception' - gives a perspective of the effects of the involvement of the interoceptive sense in self-tracking practices. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Sensing a Heartbeat: A New Perspective on Self-Tracking Technologies through the Integration of Interoception - Desiree Foerster, 2024
Fitness trackers are increasingly used by their wearers to monitor and optimise their exercise, health, and well-being. What is usually not considered is the ro...
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January 31, 2026 at 12:17 AM
ICYMI: Desiree Foerster, 'Sensing a Heartbeat: A New Perspective on Self-Tracking Technologies through the Integration of Interoception' - gives a perspective of the effects of the involvement of the interoceptive sense in self-tracking practices. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Latest issue of TCS is now available with articles on how face recognition and AI affects the way we inhabit our own faces, Black studies as field theory, exploring the role of love in wrongfully attributing lives that matter to non-living robots, and more. journals.sagepub.com/toc/TCS/curr...
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January 29, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Latest issue of TCS is now available with articles on how face recognition and AI affects the way we inhabit our own faces, Black studies as field theory, exploring the role of love in wrongfully attributing lives that matter to non-living robots, and more. journals.sagepub.com/toc/TCS/curr...
From the Archive: Xiaoshuo Hou, 'From Mao to the Market: Community Capitalism in Rural China' - an alternative model of development combining market production and distribution with redistribution and building public goods based on group boundaries. (2011) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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January 29, 2026 at 8:52 PM
From the Archive: Xiaoshuo Hou, 'From Mao to the Market: Community Capitalism in Rural China' - an alternative model of development combining market production and distribution with redistribution and building public goods based on group boundaries. (2011) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Now available: Theory, Culture & Society's Annual Review featuring the Special Section 'Pastoral Power Today', edited by Diana Stypinska and Andrea Rossi. journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcsa/42/...
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January 28, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Now available: Theory, Culture & Society's Annual Review featuring the Special Section 'Pastoral Power Today', edited by Diana Stypinska and Andrea Rossi. journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcsa/42/...
From the Archive: Annabel Herzog, 'Levinas on the Social: Guilt and the City' - focuses on Levinas’s understanding of the social as distinguished from the political. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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January 28, 2026 at 10:35 PM
From the Archive: Annabel Herzog, 'Levinas on the Social: Guilt and the City' - focuses on Levinas’s understanding of the social as distinguished from the political. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
e-Special Issue - Painting / Knowledge (Painting and the Political): Mona Abaza, 'Walls, Segregating Downtown Cairo and the Mohammed Mahmud Street Graffiti' - reflects upon the explosion of sardonic graffiti and murals following violent confrontations. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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January 27, 2026 at 4:13 PM
e-Special Issue - Painting / Knowledge (Painting and the Political): Mona Abaza, 'Walls, Segregating Downtown Cairo and the Mohammed Mahmud Street Graffiti' - reflects upon the explosion of sardonic graffiti and murals following violent confrontations. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
ICYMI: Alexandra Middleton, 'Reverse-Engineering Touch: Sense-Making and Making Sense with Prosthetic Neurostimulation' - analyses reverse-engineering as technoscientific practice, phenomenological experience, and mode of knowledge-making. (Available Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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January 27, 2026 at 4:08 PM
ICYMI: Alexandra Middleton, 'Reverse-Engineering Touch: Sense-Making and Making Sense with Prosthetic Neurostimulation' - analyses reverse-engineering as technoscientific practice, phenomenological experience, and mode of knowledge-making. (Available Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Pascal Verhoest, 'Seventeenth-Century Pamphlets as Constituents of a Public Communications Space: A Historical Critique of Public Sphere Theory'. (2018) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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January 26, 2026 at 9:51 PM
From the Archive: Pascal Verhoest, 'Seventeenth-Century Pamphlets as Constituents of a Public Communications Space: A Historical Critique of Public Sphere Theory'. (2018) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
ICYMI: Samantha King and Gavin Weedon, 'Embodiment is Ecological: The Metabolic Lives of Whey Protein Powder' - explores the metabolic lives of the most popular form of protein supplement in what has become a multibillion-dollar industry. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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January 26, 2026 at 9:43 PM
ICYMI: Samantha King and Gavin Weedon, 'Embodiment is Ecological: The Metabolic Lives of Whey Protein Powder' - explores the metabolic lives of the most popular form of protein supplement in what has become a multibillion-dollar industry. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
ICYMI: Peter Lindner, 'Molecular Politics, Wearables, and the Aretaic Shift in Biopolitical Governance' - uses what Nikolas Rose terms ‘molecular politics’, a socio-technical grip on the human body, as a background to ask, ‘What, then, of biopolitics today?’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Molecular Politics, Wearables, and the Aretaic Shift in Biopolitical Governance - Peter Lindner, 2020
Since the publication of Nikolas Rose’s ‘The Politics of Life Itself’ (2001) there has been vivid discussion about how biopolitical governance has changed over ...
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January 25, 2026 at 7:13 PM
ICYMI: Peter Lindner, 'Molecular Politics, Wearables, and the Aretaic Shift in Biopolitical Governance' - uses what Nikolas Rose terms ‘molecular politics’, a socio-technical grip on the human body, as a background to ask, ‘What, then, of biopolitics today?’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Wang Min’an, 'On Rubbish' - deals with the relationship between garbage and city, with special emphasis on the relationship between garbage and the modern commodity. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
On Rubbish - Wang Min’an, 2011
This article deals with the relationship between garbage and city, with special emphasis on the relationship between garbage and the modern commodity. With rega...
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January 25, 2026 at 6:43 PM
From the Archive: Wang Min’an, 'On Rubbish' - deals with the relationship between garbage and city, with special emphasis on the relationship between garbage and the modern commodity. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...