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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: Louise Amoore and Volha Piotukh, 'Interview with N. Katherine Hayles' - Hayles discusses the themes of her book
'Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious' published in 2017. (Free Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
'Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious' published in 2017. (Free Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Interview with N. Katherine Hayles - Louise Amoore, Volha Piotukh, 2019
Following the publication of her 2017 book, Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious, N. Katherine Hayles discusses the themes of the book with Louise...
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February 14, 2026 at 8:36 PM
ICYMI: Louise Amoore and Volha Piotukh, 'Interview with N. Katherine Hayles' - Hayles discusses the themes of her book
'Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious' published in 2017. (Free Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
'Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious' published in 2017. (Free Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Ross Abbinnett, 'On Late Fascism: Derrida, Toscano and the Return of Absolute Hostility' - examines the question of the return of fascism to the political mainstream in European liberal democracies. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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February 13, 2026 at 8:54 PM
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Ross Abbinnett, 'On Late Fascism: Derrida, Toscano and the Return of Absolute Hostility' - examines the question of the return of fascism to the political mainstream in European liberal democracies. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Annual Review: Diana Stypinska, 'Pastorate Digitalized: Social Media and (De)Subjectification' - shows how the digitalization of the pastoral directive culminates in the production of spectral subjects. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Pastorate Digitalized: Social Media and (De)Subjectification - Diana Stypinska, 2025
Taking its cue from Michel Foucault’s analyses of the pastoral ‘conduct of conduct’, this paper considers social media as a specific dispositif that derives its...
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February 13, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Annual Review: Diana Stypinska, 'Pastorate Digitalized: Social Media and (De)Subjectification' - shows how the digitalization of the pastoral directive culminates in the production of spectral subjects. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Anna Weithaler and Florian Pistrol, 'Rethinking Castoriadis’s Concept of Self-Limitation: The Case of Swiss Women’s Suffrage'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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February 12, 2026 at 7:52 PM
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Anna Weithaler and Florian Pistrol, 'Rethinking Castoriadis’s Concept of Self-Limitation: The Case of Swiss Women’s Suffrage'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
From the e-Special Issue - Painting / Knowlege (Word, Image, Mediation): Hans-Georg Gadamer, 'Artworks in Word and Image: ‘So True, So Full of Being!’ (Goethe) (1992)'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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February 12, 2026 at 7:50 PM
From the e-Special Issue - Painting / Knowlege (Word, Image, Mediation): Hans-Georg Gadamer, 'Artworks in Word and Image: ‘So True, So Full of Being!’ (Goethe) (1992)'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Lívia de Souza Lima, 'Rethinking Cornelius Castoriadis’s Crisis of Autonomy and Imagination: A Critical Engagement with Augusto Boal and Chela Sandoval'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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February 11, 2026 at 1:54 PM
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Lívia de Souza Lima, 'Rethinking Cornelius Castoriadis’s Crisis of Autonomy and Imagination: A Critical Engagement with Augusto Boal and Chela Sandoval'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
From the Archive: Virinder S. Kalra, 'Vilayeti Rhythms: Beyond Bhangra's Emblematic Status to a Translation of Lyrical Texts' - focuses on the musical form Bhangra and its specific articulation in diasporized domains. (2000) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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February 11, 2026 at 1:53 PM
From the Archive: Virinder S. Kalra, 'Vilayeti Rhythms: Beyond Bhangra's Emblematic Status to a Translation of Lyrical Texts' - focuses on the musical form Bhangra and its specific articulation in diasporized domains. (2000) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Oliver Marchart, 'Situating Castoriadis: Radical Democracy, Political Ontology, and the ‘Turn’ to Imagination'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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February 10, 2026 at 11:16 PM
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Oliver Marchart, 'Situating Castoriadis: Radical Democracy, Political Ontology, and the ‘Turn’ to Imagination'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
From the Archive: Shujen Wang and Jonathan J.H. Zhu, 'Mapping Film Piracy in China' - examines one of the most crucial yet often-overlooked links in global film processes: piracy. (2003) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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February 10, 2026 at 11:15 PM
From the Archive: Shujen Wang and Jonathan J.H. Zhu, 'Mapping Film Piracy in China' - examines one of the most crucial yet often-overlooked links in global film processes: piracy. (2003) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Begoña Gerlin, 'The Time of the Snail: Castoriadis, Zapatista Autonomy and the Radical Imaginary Today'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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February 9, 2026 at 11:58 PM
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Begoña Gerlin, 'The Time of the Snail: Castoriadis, Zapatista Autonomy and the Radical Imaginary Today'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
From the Archive: Steven D. Brown, 'Memory and Mathesis: For a Topological Approach to Psychology' - argues for an alternative form of mathematical description in psychology through the use of topology. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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February 9, 2026 at 11:50 PM
From the Archive: Steven D. Brown, 'Memory and Mathesis: For a Topological Approach to Psychology' - argues for an alternative form of mathematical description in psychology through the use of topology. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
New as Online First: Ningxiang Sun, 'Towards an Ecology of Time: Revisiting Simondon’s Genetic Method' - focuses on the ‘genetic method’ Gilbert Simondon introduced to analyse the evolution of technical objects. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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February 9, 2026 at 12:10 AM
New as Online First: Ningxiang Sun, 'Towards an Ecology of Time: Revisiting Simondon’s Genetic Method' - focuses on the ‘genetic method’ Gilbert Simondon introduced to analyse the evolution of technical objects. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Annual Review (Special Section - Pastoral Power Today): Andrea Rossi 'Techniques of Finitude: On the Pastoral Matrix of Economic Care' - interprets pastoral power as a turning point within the long-term history of the care of the self. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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February 8, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Annual Review (Special Section - Pastoral Power Today): Andrea Rossi 'Techniques of Finitude: On the Pastoral Matrix of Economic Care' - interprets pastoral power as a turning point within the long-term history of the care of the self. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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/...
Theory, Culture & Society - Volume 42, Number 7-8
Table of contents for Theory, Culture & Society, 42, 7-8
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February 7, 2026 at 11:48 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: Shiv Visvanathan, 'Alternative Science' - counters the paradigmatic status of modern western science by pointing to the existence of alternative knowledges that precede this hegemonic form. (2006) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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February 7, 2026 at 11:45 PM
From the Archive: Shiv Visvanathan, 'Alternative Science' - counters the paradigmatic status of modern western science by pointing to the existence of alternative knowledges that precede this hegemonic form. (2006) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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/...