ICYMI: Indrek Ibrus and Maarja Ojamaa, 'The Creativity of Digital (Audiovisual) Archives: A Dialogue Between Media Archaeology and Cultural Semiotics'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: David W. Hill, 'Bearing Witness, Moral Responsibility and Distant Suffering' - explores the moral demands of media presentation: focusing on shock over intimacy; and minimal presentations substituting bare information for affective stories. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From the Archive: Florence Chiew, 'Posthuman Ethics with Cary Wolfe and Karen Barad: Animal Compassion as Trans-Species Entanglement' - interrogates Wolfe's posthumanist framework as he approaches the questions of activism in the context of animal ethics. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Adam Arvidsson, 'Capitalism and the Commons' - investigates the potential role of the commons in the future transformation of digital capitalism by comparing it to the role of the commons in the transition to capitalism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Arianne Conty, 'Animism in the Anthropocene' - developing traits typical of animistic cultures - personhood, relationality, ontological boundary crossing - a postmodern ‘machinic animism’ is defended as a new ecological paradigm for the Anthropocene. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From the Archive: David Turnbull, 'Performance and Narrative, Bodies and Movement in the Construction of Places and Objects, Spaces and Knowledges' - explores the ways knowledge and space are co-produced performatively through bodily movement. (2002) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Kathryn Rountree, 'Performing the Divine: Neo-Pagan Pilgrimages and Embodiment at Sacred Sites' - discusses Neo-Pagan journeys to archaeological or heritage sites associated with pre-Christian religions and deities. (2006) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

e-Special Issue - Painting / Knowledge (Painting and the Political): Ayelet Zohar, 'The Paintings of Ibrahim Nubani: Camouflage, Schizophrenia and Ambivalence - Eight Fragments'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

e-Special Issue - Painting / Knowledge (Painting and the Political): Paul K. Saint-Amour, 'Applied Modernism: Military and Civilian Uses of the Aerial Photomosaic'. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From the Archive: Bronislaw Szerszynski, 'Gods of the Anthropocene: Geo-Spiritual Formations in the Earth’s New Epoch' - argues that we need not just to ‘decolonize’ the Anthropocene but also ‘desecularize’ it. (2017) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

e-Special Issue - Painting / Knowledge: Georg Simmel, 'On Art Exhibitions' - an early essay by Simmel, published in 1890, reflecting on sociological features of the phenomenon of the art exhibition in European culture at the end of the nineteenth century. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From the Archive: Graham Harman 'Heidegger, McLuhan and Schumacher on Form and Its Aliens' - uses the ideas of Marshall McLuhan (and to a lesser extent Martin Heidegger) to argue for a non-relational approach to architecture. (2016) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Myra J. Hird, 'Indifferent Globality' - considers Gaia theory as a useful heuristic to register the ubiquity of bacteria to environmental activity and regulation. (2010) (Free Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Philippe Sabot, 'Michel Foucault in the 1950s: Beyond Psychology towards Radical Ontology' - this paper is based on the archives of Michel Foucault collected (since 2013) at the Manuscripts Department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Ethan Stoneman and Joseph C. Packer, 'Writing for Machines, Formatting Originality: Plagiarism Detection and the Automation of Authorship'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

From the Archive: Michèle Lamont and Sada Aksartova, 'Ordinary Cosmopolitanisms: Strategies for Bridging Racial Boundaries among Working-class Men' - analyzes how ordinary people bridge racial boundaries. (2002) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Annual Review: Evan Boyle, 'The Oceanic Feeling: Experiencing the Eternal through Swimming' - outlines the philosophical relationship between water and society; and highlights the relationship between culture and the sea throughout human history. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From the Archive: Mark B.N. Hansen, 'Living (with) Technical Time: From Media Surrogacy to Distributed Cognition' - proposes that time is not so much constituted by time-consciousness as given by technical inscriptions of time. (2009) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

e-Special Issue - Painting / Knowledge (Painting and the Political): Ayelet Zohar, 'The Paintings of Ibrahim Nubani: Camouflage, Schizophrenia and Ambivalence - Eight Fragments'. (2011) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Jane Macnaughton, 'Making Breath Visible: Reflections on Relations between Bodies, Breath and World in the Critical Medical Humanities'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From the Archive: Joshua Ozias Reno,' Toward a New Theory of Waste: From ‘Matter out of Place’ to Signs of Life' - offers a counterpoint to the prevailing account of waste in the human sciences. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

e-Special Issue - Painting / Knowlege (Affect, Body, Gesture): Lone Bertelsen, 'Matrixial Refrains' - discusses the relations between the artistic, theoretical and psychoanalytic work of Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger. (2004) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New as Online First: Bo Kampmann Walther, 'BMW’s Neue Klasse: Soft Power, Therapeutic Mobility, and Cultural Re-Narration'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ICYMI: Anne Alombert, 'From Computer Science to ‘Hermeneutic Web’: Towards a Contributory Design for Digital Technologies' - connects Stiegler’s reflections on theoretical computer science with his practical propositions for the design of digital technologies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Kieran Flanagan, 'Sociology into Theology: The Unacceptable Leap' - comparing Bourdieu and Simmel, this article explores the fusion of theology and religion so as to give sociological expression to Kierkegaard's leap of faith. (2008) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Alain Pottage and Bernard Keenan, 'Planet Electric: Revisiting The Nomos of the Earth'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New as Online First: Eric Fabri, 'The End of Democracy: Castoriadis and the Heteronomization Process' - adds to the existing literature on the end of democracy by critically examining what changes in the imaginary of a society such a transition entails. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ICYMI: Troels Krarup, 'Archaeological Methodology: Foucault and the History of Systems of Thought' - furnishes the groundwork for a ‘sociological archaeology’ or ‘problem analysis’ that is not particularly dependent on Foucault as a social theorist of power. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Fay Dennis, 'Mapping the Drugged Body: Telling Different Kinds of Drug-using Stories' - turns to body-mapping as an inventive method for telling different kinds of drug-using stories. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From the Archive: Nigel Thrift, 'Driving in the City' - argues that de Certeau’s understanding of walking as the archetypal transhuman practice of making the city habitable cannot hold in a post-human world. (2004) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Annual Review: Elettra Stimilli, 'Pastoral Power and Revolution: Beyond Secularization and Political Theology' - analyses the positions of two of the leading exponents of the German debate, Karl Löwith and Carl Schmitt. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Tom Crook, 'Norms, Forms and Beds: Spatializing Sleep in Victorian Britain' - examines the spatialization of sleep in Victorian Britain across a range of institutions, including homes and dormitories. (2008) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Ruthie Ginsburg, 'Emancipation and Collaboration: A Critical Examination of Human Rights Video Advocacy' - explores the relationship between political freedom and collaboration in the work of human rights organizations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Georgia Nichols and Mike Savage, 'A Social Analysis of an Elite Constellation: The Case of Formula 1' - provides a detailed case study of F1 motor racing teams to better grasp the nature of contemporary elite formation. (2017) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Michał Krzykawski, 'What Is a Neganthropic Institution?' - discusses the relation between institutions and the production of entropy as read by Bernard Stiegler and locates this discussion within a specific debate on institutions in advanced capitalism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Rohan Kalyan, 'The Magicians’ Ghetto: Moving Slums and Everyday Life in a Postcolonial City' - elaborates a magical realist reading of urban dispossession and the displacement of slum dwellers in contemporary New Delhi. (2013) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Mary Gluck, 'The Flâneur and the Aesthetic: Appropriation of Urban Culture in Mid-19th-Century Paris' - reinterprets the sources of Parisian flânerie by exploring 19th century understandings of cultural and aesthetic modernity. (2003) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Claudia Czingon, Aletta Diefenbach and Victor Kempf, 'Moral Universalism at a Time of Political Regression: A Conversation with Jürgen Habermas about the Present and His Life’s Work.' journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Tim Dant, 'The Driver-car' - argues that cars are combined with their drivers into an assemblage, the ‘driver-car’, which has become a form of social being that brings about distinctive social actions in modern society. (2004) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Dominique P. Béhague, 'The Politics of Clinic and Critique in Southern Brazil' - shows that narrow applications of Foucault’s biopower concept nurture forms of resistance to bio-reductionism centred primarily on epistemic deconstruction. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

ICYMI: Sara Salem, 'Gramsci in the Postcolony: Hegemony and Anticolonialism in Nasserist Egypt' - shows how colonialism and anticolonialism were central to the formation of Nasserist hegemony. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

ICYMI: Peter J. Verovšek and Javier Burdman, 'Between Habermas and Lyotard: Rethinking the Contrast between Modernity and Postmodernity - shows that Habermas’s modernism and Lyotard’s postmodernism are not as antithetical as they are often taken to be. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

e-Special Issue - Painting / Knowledge (Painting and the Political): Martijn Oosterbaan and Rivke Jaffe, 'Popular Art, Crime and Urban Order Beyond the State'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From the Archive: R. Danielle Egan, 'Emotional Consumption: Mapping Love and Masochism in an Exotic Dance Club' - explores the concept of emotional consumption through an analysis of an exotic dance club. (2005) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

e-Special Issue - Painting / Knowledge (Affect, Body, Gesture): Christina Howells, 'Jean-Luc Nancy and La Peau des images: Truth is Skin-deep' - considers Jean-Luc Nancy’s reflections on the nude in painting and photography in the light of his aesthetics. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From the Archive: Patrick Crogan, 'The Tendency the Accident and the Untimely: Paul Virilio's Engagement with the Future' - explores the issues for contemporary critical practice raised by Paul Virilio's engagement with the future. (1999) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Tianren Luo, William Xing and Jingjia Xiao, 'Digital Sensing, Infrastructure of Sovereignty, and the Unmaking of the Chinese Surveillance State'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Annual Review: Arthur Bradley, 'Human Interest: Usury from Luther to Bentham' - revisits a set of classic political, theological and economic scenes in the (early) modern debate on usury from Luther to Bentham. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From the Archive: Carolyn Kane, 'The Toxic Sublime: Landscape Photography and Data Visualization' - questions whether data visualization trends help or hinder our capacity to understand our environment. (2018) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Kelly Underman, 'The Social Transmission of Bodily Knowledge' - explores the social transmission of bodily knowledge by analysing skilled experts’ (barbell coaches and yoga teachers) accounts about their techniques and approaches. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...