theoryculturesociety.org Information on the academic, peer-reviewed journals 'Theory, Culture & Society' and 'Body & Society', as well as the TCS Book Series. https://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.orghttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mx3f3j6jy22yICYMI: Elizabeth Stephens, 'Efficiency and the Productive Body: The Gilbreths’ Photographic Motion Studies of Work' - examines the images of working bodies seen in the photographic motion studies of work undertaken by Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. (Open Access) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1357034X24126217604 Oct 2026 21:51 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx3f3j6jy22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mx3eozp6ls2iFrom the Archive: Ash Amin, 'Multi-Ethnicity and the Idea of Europe' - explores the meaning of the ‘Idea of Europe’ in the context of a multicultural continent that increasingly draws on the presence and practices of people from non-European backgrounds. (2004) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026327640404213204 Oct 2026 21:44 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx3eozp6ls2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwyntdkck22vEvent: TCS Research Workshop - 'Intelligence: Computation or Symbolic Form?' - speakers include Claudia Wedepohl,Guiseppe Longo, N. Katherine Hayles, Jean Lassegue, and more. https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/intelligence-computation-or-symbolic-form-tcs-research-workshop03 Oct 2026 19:49 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwyntdkck22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwynl67be22vFrom the Archive: Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, 'Embodiment in High-altitude Mountaineering: Sensing and Working with the Weather' - examines the lived experience of weather in one of the most extreme environments on earth: high-altitude mountains. (2018) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1357034X1881294703 Oct 2026 19:44 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwynl67be22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwwd7dztac2hICYMI: Katarina Diana Sjöblom, 'Agamben’s Politics of the Performative' - offers a critical examination of Giorgio Agamben’s vision of political liberation as it is articulated in his philosophy of language. (Open Access) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0263276424130130602 Oct 2026 21:34 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwwd7dztac2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwwcykdbkc2qFrom the Archive: Peter E.S. Freund, 'Social Synaesthesia: Expressive Bodies, Embodied Charisma' - introduces the notion of social synaesthesia as a means of theorizing about mindbody—society relationships. (2009) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1357034X0934722002 Oct 2026 21:30 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwwcykdbkc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwt677a6hk2tICYMI: Joshua Reeves and Ethan Stoneman, 'From the Confessional Booth to Digital Enclosures: Absolution as Cultural Technique' - examines the confessional booth as an architected space that prefigures digital forms of data capture and production. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276424123322701 Oct 2026 15:26 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwt677a6hk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwt633hcz22tFrom the Archive: Nancy Fraser, 'Recognition without Ethics?' - proposes an analysis of gender that is broad enough to house the full range of feminist concerns. (2001) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276012205176001 Oct 2026 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwt633hcz22thttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwre5l7rjc2fNew as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Tiziana Terranova and Denise Ferreira da Silva, 'A Treatment of the Idea(l) of the Commons: A Conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva'. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0263276426148512130 Sep 2026 22:07 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwre5l7rjc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwre3tptgs2fFrom the Archive: Mickey Vallee, 'Technology, Embodiment, and Affect in Voice Sciences: The Voice is an Imaginary Organ' - focuses on ‘voice imaging’ as a technical field where people experience new relations between organic and inorganic forms of life. (2017) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1357034X17697366?30 Sep 2026 22:06 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwre3tptgs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwo24z4jps2qICYMI: Didier Debaise, 'The Land of the Moderns: The Sense of Latour’s Pragmatism' - taking the notion of matter as its starting point, this article seeks to identify the way in which Latour shows its importance in the constitution of modern thought. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276424127548929 Sep 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwo24z4jps2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwnz7ln7is2qThe latest issue of Body & Society is now available with articles on the biopolitics of public health science concerning antibiotic prophylaxis and queer bodies; dance, affect and the Dutch colonial past, and more. journals.sagepub.com/toc/boda/32/3 https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/boda/32/329 Sep 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwnz7ln7is2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwmcmrw5us2uFree to read: 'The Rise of the Chatbot Professor', a think-piece by Christof Royer. https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/christof-royer-the-rise-of-the-chatbot-professor28 Sep 2026 21:57 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwmcmrw5us2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwmciynhb22uFrom the Archive: Erich Hörl, 'Luhmann, the Non-trivial Machine and the Neocybernetic Regime of Truth' - attempts to reconstruct Luhmann’s redescription of European rationality, especially the media - and machine-historical conditions. (2012) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026327641243859228 Sep 2026 21:54 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwmciynhb22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwjspuxom226From the Archive: Eva Giraud and Gregory Hollin, 'Care, Laboratory Beagles and Affective Utopia' - focuses on the ambivalent role of care within the first large-scale experimental beagle colony at the University of California, Davis (1951–86). (2016) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026327641561968527 Sep 2026 22:07 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwjspuxom226https://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwjsly2gik26ICYMI: Blaz Skerjanec, 'More Sex, Less Identity: Towards a Naturalistic Queer Theory' - identifies two strands of thinking about sexuality and identity within queer theory: culturalist and naturalist. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276423118758627 Sep 2026 22:04 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwjsly2gik26https://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwh6bdnfkk2jNew as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Pasi Väliaho, 'Data, Movement and Capital on the Bay of Bengal: ‘View in the Island of Narkondam’ by Robert Hyde Colebrooke (1787)'.(Open Access) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0263276426148639126 Sep 2026 20:55 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwh6bdnfkk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwh67byd6k2jFrom the Archive: Charles Barbour, 'The Maker of Lies: Simmel, Mendacity and the Economy of Faith' - brings Simmel’s work on mendacity to the fore, and shows how a consideration of it sheds new light on some of his most familiar claims. (2012) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026327641245656626 Sep 2026 20:54 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwh67byd6k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwesyzkrlk2tNew as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Javier Lezaun, 'Underground jurisprudence: A counter-hegemonic appraisal of carbon sequestration'. (Open Access) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0263276426148512225 Sep 2026 22:28 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwesyzkrlk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwesv72ehk2tFrom the Archive: Martin Parker, 'Skyscrapers: The City and the Megacity' - considers the migration of the skyscraper from New York and Chicago to Asia and its absence in the emerging megacities of the Global South. (2014) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026327641454777625 Sep 2026 22:26 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwesv72ehk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwc4nsh6yc2oICYMI: Rainer Nicolaysen, 'Foucault in Hamburg: Notes on a One-Year Stay, 1959–60' - provides a detailed account of the year that Michel Foucault spent as Director of the Institut Français in Hamburg and as a guest lecturer at the Romance Studies Department. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026327642095045724 Sep 2026 20:43 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwc4nsh6yc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mwc45axwg22tFrom the Archive: Thomas J. Scheff and Ursula Mahlendorf, 'Emotion and False Consciousness: The Analysis of an Incident from Werther' - describes the way emotion can lead to false consciousness by analysing Goethe's novel 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'. (1988) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02632768800500100424 Sep 2026 20:34 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwc45axwg22thttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mw7rdksi2c26From the Archive: Alastair Bonnett, 'The Dilemmas of Radical Nostalgia in British Psychogeography' - outlines the emergence of nostalgia as a site of dilemma and creativity within political radicalism. (2009) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026327640809901523 Sep 2026 22:15 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw7rdksi2c26https://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mw7r6htg7k2iICYMI: Bojan Baća, 'QAnon and the Epistemic Communities of the Unreal: A Conceptual Toolkit for a Sociology of Grassroots Conspiracism' - introduces concepts that invite a sociological approach to conspiracism by using QAnon as a case-in-point. (Open Access) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0263276424125840423 Sep 2026 22:12 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw7r6htg7k2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mw55t7encs2oICYMI: 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. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0263276425137770222 Sep 2026 21:21 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw55t7encs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mw55rejdos2oFrom the Archive: Scott McQuire, 'Technology' - traces the increased centrality of technology to social life and examines major shifts in thinking about technology, and the emergence of concepts such as ‘technoscience’ and ‘technoculture’. (2006) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026327640606268122 Sep 2026 21:20 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw55rejdos2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mw2gzqfntk2cFrom the Archive: Madeleine Akrich and Bernike Pasveer, 'Embodiment and Disembodiment in Childbirth Narratives' - describes how body(ies) and self are performed in women’s birth narratives through the mediation of elements like technical devices. (2004) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1357034X0404293521 Sep 2026 19:27 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw2gzqfntk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mw2foho7zc24ICYMI: John Lechte, 'The Scapegoat: Violence, Law and Origin' - beginning with the current environment of populism, this article considers the scapegoat as a general notion and as it appears in the work of René Girard and Sigmund Freud. (Open Access) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0263276425134724221 Sep 2026 19:03 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw2foho7zc24https://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mvy5ix4kcc2uFrom the Archive: Jens Andermann, 'Returning to the Site of Horror: On the Reclaiming of Clandestine Concentration Camps in Argentina'. (2012) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026327641142327820 Sep 2026 21:32 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvy5ix4kcc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoryculturesociety.org/post/3mvy5em7su22uICYMI: Daniel Ross, 'The Pharmacology of the Gift: On Stiegler’s Call for a New Theoretical Computer Science'. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276422114159220 Sep 2026 21:29 +0000at://did:plc:45o4rwdpuhtmjk4wt446pmqp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvy5em7su22u