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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...
The Nostalgias of Situationist Subversion - Alastair Bonnett, 2006
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Noise as Information: Finance Economics as Second-Order Observation - Jesse Cunningham, Huon Curtis, 2020
In noise we hear the possibility of a signal, indeed different signals, and in the multiplicity of signals we hear noise. With variation and selection comes dyn...
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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...
Humour and Embarrassment - Michael Billig, 2001
This article suggests that there are intrinsic links between humour and embarrassment and that both are crucial for the maintenance of social life. Goffman and ...
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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...
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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....
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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...
Popular Culture, Digital Archives and the New Social Life of Data - David Beer, Roger Burrows, 2013
Digital data inundation has far-reaching implications for: disciplinary jurisdiction; the relationship between the academy, commerce and the state; and the very...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Mapping Logistical Capitalism - Eugene Brennan, 2021
This review article engages with a rich field of scholarship on logistics that has gathered momentum over the past decade, focusing on two new publications by L...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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