New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Leonard D’Cruz, 'What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

From the Archive: Rosi Braidotti, 'Becoming Woman: Or Sexual Difference Revisited' - revisits Irigaray's theory of sexual difference in the light of more contemporary developments in terms of nomadic becomings and non-unitary subjectivity, especially in Deleuze. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New as Online First: Nathalie Heinich, 'The Value of Persons: A Pragmatic Approach' - valuating persons is a familiar activity performed on a daily basis yet has hardly ever been addressed by the social sciences in a pragmatic and comprehensive perspective. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

From the Archive: Sarah Bracke, 'Conjugating the Modern/ Religious, Conceptualizing Female Religious Agency: Contours of a `Post-secular' Conjuncture'. (2008) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Andrew Barry, 'Pharmaceutical Matters: The Invention of Informed Materials' - argues that molecules should not be viewed as discrete objects, but as constituted in their relations to complex informational and material environments. (2005) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Dan M. Kotliar, 'On the Contesting Conceptualisation of the Human Body: Between ‘Homo-Microbis’ and ‘Homo-Algorithmicus’' - examines the emergence, proliferation, and commodification of the homo-microbial body. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

ICYMI: Alicia Ng, 'Transforming Toxic Materialities: Microbes in Anthropogenically Polluted Soils' - argues that regenerative transformation in polluted soil is mainly through microbial degradation, a process for survival amidst disaster. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From the Archive: Melinda Cooper, 'Orientalism in the Mirror: The Sexual Politics of Anti-Westernism' - reflects on the convergence of revolutionary anti-capitalism and moral fundamentalism in contemporary Islamic revival. (2008) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Ryan Bishop, 'The Eames Office, the Cold War and the Avant-Garde: Making the Lab of Tomorrow' - a collaborative, affair linking Hollywood, the State Department, universities, the corporate sector and international fairs during the Cold War. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From the Archive: Yiğit Soncul, 'Containing the Mask, Governing the Emergency: The Case of Turkey' - partially maps mainstream political rhetoric to underline that any oppositional political activity has the potential to be labeled a ‘terrorist’ one. (2015) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Marina Galletti, 'Story of a Secret Society' - retraces the history of the Acéphale secret society and its role in the development of the work of Bataille, notably the unfinished project of the Atheological Summa (Somme athéologique). journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: David Gartman, 'Three Ages of the Automobile: The Cultural Logics of The Car' - focuses on the automobile as an object of consumption, evolving through three ages during the 20th century, each characterized by a peculiar cultural logic. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Aeron Davis and Catherine Walsh, 'Distinguishing Financialization from Neoliberalism' - examines the financialization of the UK economy since the mid 70s discovering a socio-economic shift from Keynesianism to free-market fundamentalism. (2017) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Peter Osborne, 'Problematizing Disciplinarity, Transdisciplinary Problematics' - situates debates about transdisciplinarity within the history of academic disciplinarity. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

ICYMI: Nirmal Purwal, 'Carrying as Method: Listening to Bodies as Archives' - unpacks the notion of ‘carrying’ as an embodied set of influences that bear upon researchers' practices and journeys. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New in Theory, Culture & Society: Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, 'Inhabiting the Face: From Fake to Deepfake' - traces how new technological developments in face recognition and artificial intelligence affect the way we inhabit our own faces. (Online First) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

From the Archive: Aaron L. Panofsky, 'From Epistemology to the Avant-garde: Marcel Duchamp and the Sociology of Knowledge in Resonance'. (2003) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Book review: Claudia Firth reviews Jeremy Gilbert and Alex William’s 'Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (and How We Win it Back)'. www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/review-...

ICYMI: Mechthild Fend, 'Images Made by Contagion: On Dermatological Wax Moulages' - situates the production of dermatological moulages within the visual culture of 19th-century medicine. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From the Archive: Alastair Bonnett, 'The Nostalgias of Situationist Subversion' - argues that nostalgia had a both productive and disruptive role in situationist thought, enabling key insights yet also introducing incoherence and tension. (2006) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Paolo Gruppuso, 'In-between Solidity and Fluidity: The Reclaimed Marshlands of Agro Pontino' - draws on ethnographic and historical materials to explore spatial and temporal zones in-between fluidity and solidity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Claudio Celis Bueno, 'The Face Revisited: Using Deleuze and Guattari to Explore the Politics of Algorithmic Face Recognition' - explores the political dimension of algorithmic face recognition through Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of faciality. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From the Archive: Lynsey McGoey, 'Bataille and the Sociology of Abundance: Reassessing Gifts, Debt and Economic Excess' - calls for a revitalization of the study of abundance through a focus on the writing of Georges Bataille. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Hans-Herbert Kögler, 'A Genealogy of Faith and Freedom' - highlights how Habermas reconstructs the historically constitutive function of religious thought regarding essential categories through which to appropriate our practical freedom. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Claire Peta Blencowe,'Biology, Contingency and the Problem of Racism in Feminist Discourse' - focusing on the issue of racism and supremacist-specification, the article takes a genealogical look at ‘second-wave’ feminist anti-biologism. (2011) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Jesse Cunningham and Huon Curtis, 'Noise as Information: Finance Economics as Second-Order Observation' - applies a systems theoretical understanding of observation to conceive of finance economics as the economy’s means of observing its noise. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Michael Billig, 'Humour and Embarrassment: Limits of `Nice-Guy' Theories of Social Life' - suggests that there are intrinsic links between humour and embarrassment and that both are crucial for the maintenance of social life. (2001) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Rom Harré, 'Material Objects in Social Worlds' - argues the priority of symbolic, especially discursive, action over the material order in the genesis of social things. (2002) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Pang Laikwan, 'China’s Post-Socialist Governmentality and the Garlic Chives Meme: Economic Sovereignty and Biopolitical Subjects' - analyzes a popular meme depicting self-mockery of the bio-economic subject in contemporary China. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From the Archive: David Beer and Roger Burrows, 'Popular Culture, Digital Archives and the New Social Life of Data' - focuses on prosumption practices, digital technologies and the playful vitality of the ‘glossy topics’ that constitute popular culture. (2013) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Solveig Laugerud, 'The Victimised Body: Sexual Violence, Incapacity, and the Materialisation of Unconscious Bodies in Rape Verdicts' - considers the relationship between the body of the victim and the crime of sexual violence. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ICYMI: Peter Fenves, 'Detour and Dao: Benjamin, with Jullien, contra the Ontology of the Event' - examines Walter Benjamin's engagement with the Daodejing, revealing intriguing intersections between his concepts and Daoist thought. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Shigehiko Hasumi, 'Fiction and the `Unrepresentable': All Movies are but Variants on the Silent Film' - argues that characteristics of cinema formed in the era of silent movies continued to characterize film throughout the 20th century. (2017) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Robyn Kimberley Autry, 'The Monumental Reconstruction of Memory in South Africa: The Voortrekker Monument'- addresses debates around the fate of antiquated symbols of colonial domination in postcolonial societies. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Fredrik Palm, 'Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Addiction and Enjoyment' - discusses how decentered understandings of addiction might benefit from ongoing debates in Lacanian psychoanalysis. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

From the Archive: David E Nye, 'The United States and Alternative Energies since 1980: Technological Fix or Regime Change?' - examines political explanations for policy failure focusing at the federal level. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Branden Hookway, 'The Making of the Experimental Subject: Apparatus, Automatism, and the Anxiety of the Early Avant-Garde' - addresses sensory thresholds and human agency through a study of experimental psychology from the late 19th century to WW1. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Joseph S. Alter, 'Biosemiotics and Religion: Theoretical Perspectives on Language, Society and the Supernatural' - argues that biosemiotics provide a framework for extending Talal Asad’s genealogical critique of religion to culture more broadly. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Chetan Bhatt, 'Ethnic Absolutism and the Authoritarian Spirit'- explores the ideological and historical basis of authoritarian South Asian and Hindu movements. (1999) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Eugene Brennan, 'Mapping Logistical Capitalism' - shows how logistics provides essential critical and visual resources that contribute to efforts to map global capitalism and to debates on totality and class composition in contemporary critical theory. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Thomas Sutherland, 'Liquid Networks and the Metaphysics of Flux: Ontologies of Flow in an Age of Speed and Mobility' - contends that the notion of flow as utilized in social theory is metaphysical in nature, and is to be judged as such. (2013) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Michal Nahman and Christina Weis, 'Redefining Bioavailability through Migrant Egg Donors in Spain' - explores how global understandings of race, clinical practices, women’s emotional and physical labours collectively produce bioavailability. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From the Archive: Anthony Woodiwiss, 'Human Rights and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism' - outlines the diverse willed and unwilled developments which have attenuated international human rights discourse. (2002) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Jill A. Fisher, 'Tattooing the Body, Marking Culture' - examines the complex relationship between power and the physical and social practices of tattooing in contemporary United States. (2002) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Gabriel O. Apata, 'Adorno on Philosophy and Sociology' - at a series of lectures at Frankfurt University in 1960, Adorno examines the relationship between philosophy and sociology and concludes that subjects do not belong to separate spheres of thought. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Bernard E. Harcourt, 'Five Modalities of Michel Foucault’s Use of Nietzsche’s Writings (1959–73): Critical, Epistemological, Linguistic, Alethurgic and Political'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: Michael Haworth, 'Bernard Stiegler on Transgenerational Memory and the Dual Origin of the Human' - reconsiders Stiegler’s account of the emergence of the human species in light of research in the field of transgenerational epigenetics. (2015) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the Archive: John Cheney-Lippold, 'A New Algorithmic Identity: Soft Biopolitics and the Modulation of Control' - discusses the conceptual and theoretical work around code, outlining its use in an analysis of online categorization practices. (2011) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI: Rafaela Granja, Helena Machado and Filipa Queiró, 'The (De)materialization of Criminal Bodies in Forensic DNA Phenotyping' - explores how forensic geneticists’ narratives translate contemporary focus on criminal molecularized bodies. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

ICYMI: Mike Featherstone, 'Whither Globalization? An Interview with Roland Robertson' - commemorates the 30th anniversary of the Theory, Culture & Society special issue on Global Culture. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....