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ICYMI: Daniel McLoughlin, 'Interview with Vicki Kirby' - in this interview, Vicki Kirby discusses her research into the relationship between nature and culture, focusing on her edited collection, 'What If Culture Was Nature All Along?'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Life as Art, or Art as Life: Robert Filliou and the Eternal Network - Laurel Jean Fredrickson, 2019 This essay focuses on the Portraits Not Made (1970) by Robert Filliou, a French artist of the postwar neo-avant-garde and a founding member of the international...

From the Archive: Laurel Jean Fredrickson, 'Life as Art, or Art as Life: Robert Filliou and the Eternal Network' - focuses on the Portraits Not Made (1970) by Robert Filliou, a French artist of the postwar neo-avant-garde. (2018) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Foucault's Point of Heresy: ‘Quasi-Transcendentals’ and the Transdisciplinary Function of the Episteme - Étienne Balibar, 2015 Major difficulties for readers of Foucault’s The Order of Things concern the historical function and the logical construction of the episteme. Our proposal is t...

From the Archive: Étienne Balibar, 'Foucault's Point of Heresy: ‘Quasi-Transcendentals’ and the Transdisciplinary Function of the Episteme'. (2015) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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ICYMI: Lilian Kroth, 'Entropy and Entropic Differences in the Work of Michel Serres'- by contextualizing his view of entropy and affirming a philosophy of difference, this paper explores Serres' approach through ‘entropic differences.’ (Open Access). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Why Gaia is not a God of Totality - Bruno Latour, 2017 Biology and politics have always been permeable to one another, trading metaphors back and forth. This is nowhere more blatant than when people claim to talk ab...

From the Archive: Bruno Latour, 'Why Gaia is not a God of Totality' - maps out why it is so difficult for natural as well as social scientists not to confuse Gaia with some sort of Providence. (2016) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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ICYMI: 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...

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From the Archive: Charles Thorpe, 'Violence and the Scientific Vocation' - examines the implications for the notion of scientific vocation of the modern intersection between science and violence, realized most powerfully in the atomic bomb. (2004) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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ICYMI: Sebastian Sevignani, 'Digital Transformations and the Ideological Formation of the Public Sphere: Hegemonic, Populist, or Popular Communication?' - elaborates on a theory of the ideological public sphere in the age of digital media. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Regime Resistance against Low-Carbon Transitions: Introducing Politics and Power into the Multi-Level Perspective - Frank W Geels, 2014 While most studies of low-carbon transitions focus on green niche-innovations, this paper shifts attention to the resistance by incumbent regime actors to funda...

From the Archive: Frank W Geels, 'Regime Resistance against Low-Carbon Transitions: Introducing Politics and Power into the Multi-Level Perspective'. (2014) (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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ICYMI: Martine Lappé and Robbin Jeffries Hein, 'The Temporal Politics of Placenta Epigenetics: Bodies, Environments and Time' - builds on feminist scholarship on new biologies to describe the temporal politics of epigenetic research of the human placenta. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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From the Archive: Bryan S. Turner, 'Cosmopolitan Virtue, Globalization and Patriotism' - traces various cosmopolitan ethics from the Greeks, Roman Stoics and Christian philosophers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Art, Affect, and Social Media in the ‘No Dakota Access Pipeline’ Movement - Robyn Lee, 2023 Indigenous-led activism against proposed oil pipelines has relied heavily on social media, as in the #NoDAPL campaign against the Dakota Access Pipeline. This p...

ICYMI: Robyn Lee, 'Art, Affect, and Social Media in the ‘No Dakota Access Pipeline’ Movement' - exploring affective engagement in online activism. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Narratives of Resistance: Foucault’s Case Studies and the History of Transgression - Gal Hertz, 2025 This article examines two of Foucault’s case studies – those of two young people who faced impossible lives. Both documented their life-stories in memoirs. The ...

New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Gal Hertz, 'Narratives of Resistance: Foucault’s Case Studies and the History of Transgression' - examines two of Foucault’s case studies – those of two young people who faced impossible lives. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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From the Archive: Michael S. Carolan, 'The Mutability of Biotechnology Patents: From Unwieldy Products of Nature to Independent ‘Object/s’ - details how patent law works to create discrete, immutable biological ‘objects’. (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Philosophy and Social Science: Introducing Bourdieu and Passeron - Louis Althusser, 2019 This text derives from a recording, and transcripts, of the introduction which Althusser gave on 6 December 1963, to a seminar for students in the École Normale...

ICYMI: Louis Althusser, 'Philosophy and Social Science: Introducing Bourdieu and Passeron' - based on a recording, and transcripts, of the introduction which Althusser gave in 1963, to a seminar for students, offered at his invitation by Bourdieu and Passeron. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Being Alongside: Rethinking Relations amongst Different Kinds - Joanna Latimer, 2013 This paper broadens out existing challenges to the divisions between the human and the animal that keep humans distinct, and apart, from other animals. Much att...

From the Archive: Joanna Latimer, 'Being Alongside: Rethinking Relations amongst Different Kinds' - broadens out existing challenges to the divisions between the human and the animal that keep humans distinct, and apart, from other animals. (2013) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Face and the City - Andrea Mubi Brighenti, 2019 This piece sets out an exploration of the relations between the city, the body and the face, seeking to understand in particular how the city and the face could...

ICYMI: Andrea Mubi Brighenti, 'Face and the City' - explores the relations between the city, the body and the face, seeking to understand in particular how the city and the face could be articulated with reference to an image of the body. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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From the Archive: Nigel Clark, 'Politics of Strata' - drawing on contemporary earth science and the geophilosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, this article explores how geological strata are emerging as provocations for political issue formation. (2016) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

‘India’s 9/11’ - Tania Roy, 2009 This article explores the hermeneutical force and flexibility of the 9/11 idiom, by identifying some ways in which it served as an interpretative framework for ...

From the Archive: Tania Roy, '‘India’s 9/11’: Accidents of a Moveable Metaphor' - explores the hermeneutical force and flexibility of the 9/11 idiom, by identifying ways which it served as an interpretative framework for the Mumbai attacks in 2008. (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Pastoral Power and Revolution: Beyond Secularization and Political Theology - Elettra Stimilli, 2023 When stressing how ‘Christian pastoral power’ defined the specificity of ‘governmental power’, Foucault never explicitly acknowledged the German debate on moder...

ICYMI: Elettra Stimilli, 'Pastoral Power and Revolution: Beyond Secularization and Political Theology' - analyses the positions of Karl Löwith and Carl Schmitt, and substantiates this hypothesis by looking at Foucault’s investigations of pastoral power. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Intellectual Property Law and the Globalization of Indigenous Cultural Expressions: Māori Tattoo and the Whitmill versus Warner Bros. Case - Leon Tan, 2013 From the time of British colonial settlement, innumerable taonga (treasures) have been appropriated from the indigenous Māori population of Aotearoa/New Zealand...

From the Archive: Leon Tan, 'Intellectual Property Law and the Globalization of Indigenous Cultural Expressions: Māori Tattoo and the Whitmill versus Warner Bros. Case' - focuses on the topic of cultural appropriation. (2013) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Is Anti-totalitarian Theory Still Relevant? The Example of Claude Lefort - Dick Howard, 2023 After asking whether the concept of totalitarianism still has a meaning in today’s world, and whether its critique makes political sense, the author turns to th...

ICYMI: Dick Howard, 'Is Anti-totalitarian Theory Still Relevant? The Example of Claude Lefort' - asks if the concept of totalitarianism still has meaning in today’s world, then turns to Lefort’s attempts to understand totalitarianism over the past 60 years. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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From the Archive: Kieran Keohane, 'The Revitalization of the City and the Demise of Joyce's Utopian Modern Subject' - draws out affinities in the work of Simmel, Benjamin and Joyce on the experience of city life and the formation of modern subjectivity. (2002) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Video: ‘Foucault’s Confessions’ Online Series — Theory, Culture & Society | Global Public Life A selection of videos from ‘ Foucault’s Confessions’ , an online series of bi-weekly talks hosted by the Department of Religion at Rice University , from May 4 - June 3, 2021. Organisers: Niki Kasu...

ICYMI: A selection of videos from ‘Foucault’s Confessions’, an online series of bi-weekly talks hosted by the Department of Religion at Rice University in 2021. www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/video-f...

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ICYMI: Jan Overwijk, 'Paradoxes of Rationalisation: Openness and Control in Critical Theory and Luhmann's Systems Theory'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Gendering Humanoid Robots: Robo-Sexism in Japan - Jennifer Robertson, 2010 In humans, gender is both a concept and performance embodied by females and males, a corporeal technology that is produced dialectically. The process of genderi...

From the Archive: Jennifer Robertson, 'Gendering Humanoid Robots: Robo-Sexism in Japan' - explores and interrogates the gendering of humanoid robots manufactured in Japan for employment in the home and workplace. (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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ICYMI: Steve Hinchliffe, 'Postcolonial Global Health, Post-Colony Microbes and Antimicrobial Resistance'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The Increase of Complexity and its Reduction - Helga Nowotny, 2005 Taking the lead from complexity theory and complex systems methodology, the article argues that we are engaged in a contradictory process when e...

From the Archive: Helga Nowotny, 'The Increase of Complexity and its Reduction: Emergent Interfaces between the Natural Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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ICYMI: Nicholas Gane, 'Capitalism, Democracy, and Territorial Forms of Exception: Quinn Slobodian, Crack-Up Capitalism' - assesses the core arguments of Quinn Slobodian’s book, 'Crack-Up Capitalism'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

An Interview with Elizabeth Povinelli: Geontopower, Biopolitics and the Anthropocene - Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Mathew Coleman, Kathryn Yusoff, 2017 This article is an interview with Elizabeth Povinelli, by Mathew Coleman and Kathryn Yusoff. It addresses Povinelli’s approaches to ‘geontologies’ and ‘geontopo...

From the Archive: Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Mathew Coleman and Kathryn Yusoff. 'An Interview with Elizabeth Povinelli: Geontopower, Biopolitics and the Anthropocene'. (2017) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...