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...

From the Archive: Bernadette Wegenstein and Nora Ruck, 'Physiognomy, Reality Television and the Cosmetic Gaze' - argues that the mode of looking at bodies expresses a gaze already informed by the techniques and expectations of bodily modification. (2011) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Samantha Frost, 'The Attentive Body: How the Indexicality of Epigenetic Processes Enriches Our Understanding of Embodied Subjectivity' - analyses the challenges epigenetic processes pose for our understanding of embodied subjectivity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Andrèa Zhouri, 'Global–Local Amazon Politics: Conflicting Paradigms in the Rainforest Campaign' - discusses dimensions of Amazon policies driven by a global market perspective and which may render local and diverse cultures invisible. (2004) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Joyce C. H. Liu, 'Re-Reading Zhang Taiyan against François Jullien: Ontology and Political Critique in Chinese Thought' - challenges Jullien's reading of Chinese thought, exploring the spirit of political resistance in Zhang Taiyan's work journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Joyce Dalsheim, 'Anachronism and Morality: Israeli Settlement, Palestinian Nationalism, and Human Liberation' - focuses on how the idea of anachronism can interfere with our thinking about social justice, peace, and human liberation. (2013) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Henry Neim Osman, 'The Poverty of the Mushroom: On the New Organicisms' - critiques the recent critical investment in fungi and relational ontologies modeled on mycelial networks. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From the Archive: Michael Dillon and Luis Lobo-Guerrero, 'The Biopolitical Imaginary of Species-being' - revises Foucault's account of biopolitics in the light of the impact of the molecular and digital revolutions on `the politics of life itself'. (2009) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New as Online First: Carlos Spoerhase, 'The ‘Scholarship Boy’: Autobiographical Narratives of Social Mobility' - discusses the intriguing concept of the ‘scholarship boy’, a term introduced by Richard Hoggart in his work 'The Uses of Literacy'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Latest e-Special issue - Painting / Knowledge - is now available with articles from the archives of TCS and BOD positioned across four thematic strands: Painting and the Political; Affect, Body, Gesture; Word, Image, Mediation; and Memory, Trauma, Image. journals.sagepub.com/page/tcs/sun...

ICYMI: Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay, 'Crossing the Howrah Bridge: Calcutta, Filth and Dwelling - Forms, Fragments, Phantasms' - this photo-essay analyzes the politics of dwelling of the inhabitants of ‘outcast’ Calcutta. (Free Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Mathieu Quet, 'Pharmaceutical Capitalism and its Logistics: Access to Hepatitis C Treatment' - defines the notion of ‘logistic regimes’; and analyzes critical ways of engaging with contemporary pharmaceutical logistics. (2017) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Jeffrey Tongxi Liu, 'Climate Katechon Politics: Carl Schmitt in Narratives of the Environmental Crisis'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

From the Archive: Joyce C.H. Liu, 'Against Agamben: Sovereignty and the Void in the Discourse of the Nation in Early Modern China' - addresses the question of sovereignty and the void in the discourse of nation in early modern China. (2015) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

How does race figure in writing on nature, landscape, and environment? This new open-access article in @theoryculturesociety.org charts the rise of ‘liberal indigeneity’ as an expression of nativism in postimperial Britain. 1/2 doi.org/10.1177/0263...

ICYMI: Adam Fish, 'Reforesting Native America with Drones: Rooting Carbon with Arborescent Governmentality and Decolonial Geoengineering' - argues that forestry drones' biopolitics can be therapeutic: capable of reversing ecological simplification. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Rok Benčin, 'Rethinking Representation in Ontology and Aesthetics via Badiou and Rancière' - discusses a shift in conceptualizing the notion of representation found in Alain Badiou’s ontology and Jacques Rancière’s aesthetics. (2018) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Ori Schwarz, 'Facebook Rules: Structures of Governance in Digital Capitalism and the Control of Generalized Social Capital' - explores Facebook governance while identifying wider patterns and logics that apply to other internet corporations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Sebastian Vehlken, 'Zootechnologies: Swarming as a Cultural Technique' - examines the media history of swarm research and the significance of swarming techniques to current socio-technological processes. (2013) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Yuk Hui, 'On the Varieties of Experience of Art' - takes up the line of critique of François Jullien in 'The Great Image Has No Form', that Chinese landscape painting (shanshui) provides a counter-example to Western painting. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Lisa Blackman, '`Starting Over': Politics, Hope, Movement' - explores the politics of hope and optimism made possible by a re-thinking of touch as a movement towards the not-yet-known, embodied through an engagement with the Argentine tango. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Boris Pantev, 'Husserl’s Theory of Communication' - outlines the emergence of Husserl’s theory of ‘communication proper’ (Mitteilung or Kommunikation) in the context of his genetic analyses of intersubjectivity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Nigel Clark, 'Volatile Worlds, Vulnerable Bodies' - explores engaging with catastrophic climatic change that stresses the inherent volatility and unpredictability of earth process, and the vulnerability of the human body. (2010) (Free Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New as Online First: Matthew Abbey, 'Calculating Deaths, Dystopic Futures: Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer' - focuses on Bong Joon Ho’s 'Snowpiercer' (2013) and explores what happens when the violence of statistics is pushed to its extreme. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....