Theory, Culture & Society

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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...

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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...

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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....

Performance and Narrative, Bodies and Movement in the Construction of Places and Objects, Spaces and Knowledges - David Turnbull, 2002 The article explores the ways knowledge and space are co-produced performatively through bodily movement in an examination of the Maltese megaliths th...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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/...

Ordinary Cosmopolitanisms - Michèle Lamont, Sada Aksartova, 2002 In contrast to most literature on cosmopolitanism, which focuses on its elite forms, this article analyzes how ordinary people bridge racial boundaries in every...

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...

The Oceanic Feeling: Experiencing the Eternal through Swimming - Evan Boyle, 2025 Recent times have seen an emergence of cold-water sea swimming as a popular pasttime for increased numbers of people in coastal regions. Within this paper, we s...

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....

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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...

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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...

Making Breath Visible: Reflections on Relations between Bodies, Breath and World in the Critical Medical Humanities - Jane Macnaughton, 2020 Breath is invisible and yet ever present and vital for living beings. The concept of invisibility in relation to breath operates in concrete and metaphorical wa...

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....

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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...

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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...

BMW’s Neue Klasse: Soft Power, Therapeutic Mobility, and Cultural Re-Narration - Bo Kampmann Walther, 2026 This article examines the BMW Neue Klasse as a culturally and ideologically charged design object that repositions the automobile as a site of post-traumatic re...

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/...

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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...

Sociology into Theology - Kieran Flanagan, 2008 By means of a comparison between Bourdieu and Simmel, this article explores the fusion of theology and religion so as to give sociological expression to Kierkeg...

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...

Planet Electric: Revisiting The Nomos of the Earth - Alain Pottage, Bernard Keenan, 2026 What does Carl Schmitt’s Nomos of the Earth tell us about appropriation on a planetary scale? First, we should notice that the rediscovery of the book within co...

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...

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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/...

Archaeological Methodology: Foucault and the History of Systems of Thought - Troels Krarup, 2021 Existing accounts of Foucault’s archaeological methodology have not (a) contextualized the concept properly within the intellectual field of its emergence and (...

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...

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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....

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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...

Pastoral Power and Revolution: Beyond Secularization and Political Theology - Elettra Stimilli, 2025 When stressing how ‘Christian pastoral power’ defined the specificity of ‘governmental power’, Foucault never explicitly acknowledged the German debate on moder...

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...

Norms, Forms and Beds: Spatializing Sleep in Victorian Britain - Tom Crook, 2008 This article examines the spatialization of sleep in Victorian Britain across a range of institutions, including homes and dormitories. It situates the emergenc...

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...