Tuesday, 24 January 2012

January Issue of TCS - Out Now!

The new issue of TCS (29.1, Jan 2012) is now available.

The issue features the Special Section on 'Memory, Community and the New Museum', edited and introduced by Jens Andermann and Silke Arnold-de Simine, and consisting of Arnold-de Simine's article on Libeskind's Jewish Museum and Sebald's Austerlitz, Andermann's on concentration camps in Argentina, and Patrizia Violi on trauma in three different museums.

The issue also includes standard articles by Sylvia Walby on Amartya Sen, Penelope Deutscher's re-reading of Foucault's History of Sexuality vol. 1, and Alistair Bonnett on Ashis Nandy; as well as Gurminder Bhambra's review of Satya Mohanty's edited collection on Colonialism.





TCS and B & S are published by SAGE.

TCS Annual Review 2011 - Out Now!

The TCS Annual Review (28.7-8, Dec 2011), edited by Ryan Bishop and John Phillips, is now available.

This time the AR features sections on 'Secrecy and Transparency', 'Air-Target' and our usual 'Global Public Life' section.

The 'Secrecy and Transparency' section, edited by Clare Birchall, features articles by Geoffrey Bennington, Dave Boothroyd, Clare Birchall, Alexander Galloway, Eva Horn, John Beck, Martin McQuillan, and John Phillips's interview with Sam Weber.

The 'Air-Target' section, edited by Peter Adey, Mark Whitehead and Alison J Williams, includes articles by Derek Gregory, Ben Anderson, Paul K Saint-Amour and Ryan Bishop.

And the 'Global Public Life' section features photo essays on the 20-Kilometer University in Shenzhen and the High Line in New York, commentaries on 'rubbish' and industrialisation, and reviews of Michael Dutton's Beijing Time (by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald) and John Beck's Dirty Wars (by Adam Piette).
TCS and B & S are published by SAGE.

Interview with Adrian Mackenzie and Theo Vurdubakis on Code and Crisis


As a supplement to our Special Issue on Codes and Codings in Crisis (TCS 28.6, Nov 2011), Simon Dawes interviewed Adrian Mackenzie and Theo Vurdubakis on the relationship between code, crisis, performativity and language, as well as some of the other themes explored throughout the issue.



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Friday, 23 December 2011

TCS Special Issue on Code - Out Now!

The TCS Special Issue on Codes and Codings in Crisis (TCS 28.6, Nov 2011) is now available.

Edited by Adrian MacKenzie and Theo Vurdubakis, the issue includes their introduction on the themes of signification, performativity and excess in code, and articles by Louise Amoore on data derrivatives and risk, Marc Lenglet on algorithmic trading and financial regulation, Anna Munster on biopolitics, noopolitics and death in digital code, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun on crisis, sovereignty and networks, Lucas D Introna on encoding and plagiarism, Hannah Knox and Penny Harvey on codes of conduct and health and safety in the regulation of a road construction project, and John Cheney-Lippold on algorithmic identity and soft biopolitics.
TCS and B & S are published by SAGE.

Thursday, 17 November 2011

New Issue of Body & Society - Out Now

The December 2011 issue of Body & Society (17.4) is now available.

The new issue features articles by Daniel Black on the phenomenon of 'the face', Bernadette Wegenstein & Nora Ruck on the cosmetic gaze of reality television, Steve Pile on spatialities of skin and T.E. Lawrence, Eeva Puumala, Tarja Vayrynen, Anitta Kynsilehto and Samu Pehkonen on Jean-Luc Nancy and asylum seekers, and Emily Wentzell on the marketing and health discourse of gay men's use of Viagra.
TCS and B & S are published by SAGE.

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

TCS September Issue - Out Now!

The new issue of Theory, Culture & Society (TCS 28.5, Sep 2011) is now available, featuring articles by David Cecchetto on Mark Hansen and Affect, Kim Su Rasmussen on Foucault and Racism, Jussi Parikka on Wolfgang Ernst and Media Archaeology, Tariq Jazeel on Cosmopolitanism and Planetary Futures, and Jonathan Bach on Modernity and the Urban Imagination.

The issue also features Roberta Sassatelli's interview with Laura Mulvey, Vincent Lloyd's review article on Violence, and Ginette Verstraete's book review of Daniel Miller's Anthropology and the Individual.
TCS and B & S are published by SAGE.

Tuesday, 13 September 2011

The Tourist Gaze 3.0 - Out Now!

The 3rd edition of the TCS Book The Tourist Gaze by John Urry and Jonas Larsen is now available from Sage.

This new edition features additional chapters on photography and digitization, embodied performances and risk and alternative futures.
TCS and B & S are published by SAGE.

Friday, 2 September 2011

Body & Society Impact Factor Increase!

Body & Society Impact Factor Increase
Editor's Announcement


We are pleased to announce the great news that the journal Body & Society has increased its impact factor to 1.082, which means that it is now ranked 34, out of 129 in Sociology. As we know in the competitive academic climate impact factors are important for authors, who increasingly are under intense demands to publish in the best journals. As a celebration of the journal's standing in the field we are opening up access to the 10 most highly cited articles over the period upon which the impact factor is based. These articles can be accessed using the links below. Simply click on the article titles below to be taken to the content...


Click on 'Read more' for links to the free articles, and the rest of Lisa Blackman's announcement.

TCS and B & S are published by SAGE.