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Theory, Culture & Society This is the official page of the journals Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society, as well as the TCS Book Series.

This is the official TCS page. The TCS Website provides information about the journals Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society, as well as the Theory, Culture & Society Book Series. Extending the discussions and debates that TCS has been fostering in the areas of sociology, cultural theory and social theory for over three decades, here you will find interviews, discussions, reviews,

images and podcasts about and around the key topics covered in the journals and books. It also has a range of extra material, including a section on key theorists and a glossary of the latest theoretical concepts.

02/07/2024

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 to ‘desecularize’ it – to be aware that in the new age of the Earth we may be coeval with gods and spirits. (2017) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276417691102

01/07/2024

From the Archive: Éric Alliez, 'Afters: Tracing Transdisciplinarity through Guattari and Latour' - analyses Guattari's and Latour's bodies of work as radical developers of a processual and ontological transdisciplinarity. (Open Access) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0263276415594237

30/06/2024

From the Archive: Carolyn Nordstrom, 'Shadows and Sovereigns' - an ethnographic and theoretical exploration of the `shadows': vast transnational networks of goods, services, people and exchanges that flow outside formal and legal state channels and international laws. (2000) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02632760022051301

30/06/2024

New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Filipe Carreira da Silva and Monica Brito Vieira, 'Amílcar Cabral, Colonial Soil and the Politics of Insubmission' - discusses the concept of ‘insubmission’, the cornerstone of Amílcar Cabral’s critical theory and refers to the human species’ refusal to submit to the nature of which we are always a part. (Open Access) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02632764241253752

29/06/2024

Latest issue of Body & Society: Sean Heath, 'On the Learning, Transmission, and Embodiment of Swimming’s Haptic Grammar' - develops the concept of ‘haptic grammar’ to encourage greater scholarly focus on the sensory aspects of bodily motion used to generate movement, knowledge of one’s body in an environment, and thus being-in-the-world. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1357034X241254982

28/06/2024

ICYMI: Michał Krzykawski, 'Is a Neganthropic Institution?' - discusses the relation between the institutions and the production of entropy as read by Bernard Stiegler and locates this discussion within a more specific debate on institutions in advanced capitalism. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02632764221141604

26/06/2024

ICYMI: Andrew Navin Brooks, 'Fugitive Listening: Sounds from the Undercommons' - builds on various critiques of the relationship between the voice and autonomous individual subjectivity, briefly tracking the specific history through which the voice transformed into an ideal object representing the liberal subject of post-Enlightenment thought. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276420911962

26/06/2024

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. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02632760122051959

25/06/2024

From the latest issue of Body & Society: Kevin Hunt, 'Michel Serres’s Sensorial Philosophy and the Importance of Skin in Francis Bacon’s Nudes' - Prompted by the exhibition Francis Bacon: Man and Beast (January–April 2022), this article takes a cultural studies and historical poetics approach to the significance of skin in Bacon’s nudes. (Open Access) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1357034X241245982

24/06/2024

ICYMI: Anne Alombert, 'From Computer Science to ‘Hermeneutic Web’: Towards a Contributory Design for Digital Technologies' - this paper aims to connect Stiegler’s reflections on theoretical computer science with his practical propositions for the design of digital technologies. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02632764221141684

23/06/2024

In the latest issue of Body & Society: Aideen Catherine O’Shaughnessy, 'On the Embodied Experience of Anti-abortion Laws and Regulations: The Gendered Burden of ‘Abortion Work’ - explores how abortion laws and regulations are experienced by women and others who may become pregnant at the level of the affected body. (Open Access) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1357034X241252420

23/06/2024

From the Archive: Thomas Lemke, 'An Alternative Model of Politics? Prospects and Problems of Jane Bennett’s Vital Materialism' - discusses the basic arguments and important achievements of Jane Bennett’s vital materialism, as well as some problems and limitations of this theoretical perspective. (2018) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276418757316

22/06/2024

ICYMI: Michael Dieter and David Gauthier, 'On the Politics of Chrono-Design: Capture, Time and the Interface' - makes a contribution to interface criticism through the notion of chrono-design: the deliberate shaping of experiences of temporality and time through contemporary software techniques and digital technologies. (Free Access) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0263276418819053

22/06/2024

From the June issue of Body & Society: Desiree Foerster, 'Sensing a Heartbeat: A New Perspective on Self-Tracking Technologies through the Integration of Interoception' - gives a perspective on the scope and the effects of the involvement of the interoceptive sense in self-tracking practices. (Open Access) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1357034X241245994

21/06/2024

From the Archive: Lisa Jones (Translator), 'Power and Violence by Paul Ricoeur' - addresses and subjects to critical examination the political thought of Hannah Arendt, taking as his starting point her paper ‘On Violence’, and her treatment of the conceptual pair power and violence. (2010) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276410375296

21/06/2024

The latest issue of Body & Society is now available with articles on the gendered burden of 'abortion work', new perspectives on self-tracking technologies and the significance of skin in Francis Bacon's nudes. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/boda/30/2

20/06/2024

From the Archive: Peter Sloterdijk, 'Nearness and Da-sein: The Spatiality of Being and Time' - focuses on the latent spatial philosophy in Heidegger’s ‘Being and Time’, highlighting a key aspect of the Heideggerian oeuvre that has mostly been overlooked by commentators. (2012) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276412448828

19/06/2024

New as Online First in Body & Society: Sean Heath, 'On the Learning, Transmission, and Embodiment of Swimming’s Haptic Grammar' - develops the concept of ‘haptic grammar’ to encourage greater scholarly focus on the sensory aspects of bodily motion used to generate movement, knowledge of one’s body in an environment, and thus being-in-the-world. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1357034X241254982

19/06/2024

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) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276417716519

18/06/2024

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) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276413492830

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