Theory, Culture & Society
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Information on the academic, peer-reviewed journals 'Theory, Culture & Society' and 'Body & Society', as well as the TCS Book Series.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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/...
- 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/...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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/...
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- ICYMI: John Narayan, 'Huey P. Newton’s Intercommunalism: An Unacknowledged Theory of Empire' - centers on leader of the Black Panther Party, Huey P. Newton's critique of what he called ‘reactionary intercommunalism’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- Video: Discussion of Michel Foucault’s ‘The Punitive Society' - a joint session hosted by Columbia’s Center for Contemporary Critical Thought with the Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy at the University of Warwick. www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/video-d...
- New as Online First in Body & Society: Charles L. T. Corsby, Gareth McNarry, Elliott Doyle and Han Wool Lee, 'Living With Injury: A Phenomenology of Sport Injury Rehabilitation'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- From the Archive: Jeremy Stolow, 'Transnationalism and the New Religio-politics: Reflections on a Jewish Orthodox Case' - develops a theoretical framework for analysing the public prominence of transnational religious movements on the world stage. (2004) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- From the Archive: Esther Weltevrede, Anne Helmond and Carolin Gerlitz, 'The Politics of Real-time: A Device Perspective on Social Media Platforms and Search Engines' - enquires into the politics of real-time in online media. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- ICYMI: Selen Eren and Anne Beaulieu, 'Between a Bird-in-the-Hand and Species Data in the Bank: Intermittent Care in Conservation Science' (Open Access). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- From the Archive: David Tyfield, '‘King Coal is Dead! Long Live the King!’: The Paradoxes of Coal's Resurgence in the Emergence of Global Low-Carbon Societies'. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- ICYMI: Alison Downham Moore, 'Foucault’s 1960s Lectures on Sexuality' - discusses the lectures on sexuality which Foucault delivered in the 1960s. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- From the e-Special Issue - Painting / Knowledge (Painting and the Political): Jon Stratton, 'Landscapes: Central and Western Desert Paintings and the Discourse of Art'. (1994) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- From the Archive: Sean Cubitt, 'Electric Light and Electricity' - looks at the marketization of electric power and concludes that abandoning centralized market models in favour of microgrids is the only sure way to return agency to slum dwellers. (2013) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- New as Online First: Mark Nicholas Gibson, 'Organic Neoliberalism: A.O. Hirschman’s ‘Exit Option’ and Grassroots Processes of Marketization'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- From the Archive: Sang-Jin Han, Young-Hee Shim and Young-Do Park, 'Cosmopolitan Sociology and Confucian Worldview: Beck’s Theory in East Asia' - aims at an active dialogue between Ulrich Beck and East Asia with respect to cosmopolitan imagination. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- New as Online First: James Rosenberg, 'Reactionary Bricolage: Curtis Yarvin and Postliberalism' - as the authoritarian right advances in the United States, the author assesses the writings of Curtis Yarvin, one of the US right's most influential intellectuals. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- From the Archive: Penelope Harvey: 'The Topological Quality of Infrastructural Relation: An Ethnographic Approach'. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- From the Archive: Elly Teman, 'Embodying Surrogate Motherhood: Pregnancy as a Dyadic Body-project' - examines pregnancy as a dyadic body-project within surrogate motherhood arrangements. (2009) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- e-Special Issue - Painting / Knowledge: Paolo Palladino, 'Picturing the Messianic: Agamben and Titian’s The Nymph and the Shepherd' - offers a different reading of this painting, whereby the advent of radical freedom and death become indistinguishable. (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- ICYMI: Will Atkinson, 'Field Theory and Assemblage Theory: Toward a Constructive Dialogue' - engages with Manuel DeLanda’s Deleuze-inspired ‘assemblage theory’ from a perspective sympathetic to Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- From the Archive: Niklas Luhmann, 'Notes on the Project `Poetry and Social Theory'' - a series of reflections on different paradoxical forms of communication, exploring notions of incommunicability, silence and latency. (2001) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- From the Archive: Elizabeth Shove and Gordon Walker, 'What Is Energy For? Social Practice and Energy Demand' - shows how social-theoretical commitments influence the ways in which problems like those of reducing carbon emissions are framed and addressed. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- ICYMI: Read Jan Nederveen Pieterse's review of Gerard Delanty's (ed.) ‘Pandemics, Politics, and Society: Critical Perspectives on the Covid-19 Crisis’. www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/review-...
- From the e-Special Issue - Painting / Knowlege (Affect, Body, Gesture): Griselda Pollock, 'Thinking the Feminine: Aesthetic Practice as Introduction to Bracha Ettinger and the Concepts of Matrix and Metramorphosis'. (2004) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- From the Archive: Philip Schlesinger, 'W.G. Sebald and the Condition of Exile' - places Sebald’s literary output in the context of contemporary debate in the social sciences about memory and identity. (2004) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- New as Online First: Petra Mikulan and Michalinos Zembylas, 'Affective Eugenics: Education, Political Polarization, and the Affective Sorting of Futurity'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- ICYMI: Timothy Barker, 'Michel Serres and the Philosophy of Technology' - explores the topic of technology in Michel Serres’ work. (Open Access). journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- From the e-Special Issue - Painting / Knowledge: Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, 'The Artist to Power?: Futurism, Fascism and the Avant-Garde'. (1996) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- From the Archive: Adam Piette, 'Contesting Realms of Memory in Early Cold War France: Tulle, Oradour and Ricoeur’s Memory, History, Forgetting' - critiques Ricoeur’s theorizing of amnesty amnesia and political forms of memory. (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- ICYMI: Margaret Morganroth Gullette, 'Reflections on the Turn to Ageism in Contemporary Cultural Discourse' - asks why the turn to ageism had not been able to raise age consciousness more effectively in the media or the public. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
