From the Archive: Earl Gammon and Duncan Wigan, 'Bataille and Financial Innovation' - advances towards the reconceptualization of financial innovation and examines the calamitous role it played in the global financial crisis. (2015)

ICYMI: Rebecca Oxley and Andrew Russell, 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World' - addresses the lacuna that exists in the examination of the meanings of breath as a central theme in the humanitics and social sciences. (Open Access)

ICYMI: Timon Beyes, 'Staying with the Secret: The Public Sphere in Platform Society' - discusses notions of mediated publics in juxtaposition with the redoubling of media-technological and organizational secrecy at work in platform society. (Open Access)

From the Archive: Adam Arvidsson, 'Facebook and Finance: On the Social Logic of the Derivative' - suggests that Facebook embodies a new logic of capitalist governance, what has been termed the ‘social logic of the derivative’. (2016)

From the Archive: Sunil Manghani, 'The Art of Paolo Cirio: Exposing New Myths of Big Data Structures' - examines the work of artist Paolo Cirio, whose practice intersects with matters of copyright, privacy, transparency and corporate finance. (2017)

ICYMI Arthur Bradley, 'Human Interest: Usury from Luther to Bentham' - revisits a set of classic political, theological and economic scenes in the (early) modern debate on usury from Luther to Bentham. (Open Access)

ICYMI: Hélène Mialet, 'Bodies in Balance: Tracking Type 1 Diabetes' - explores through the lens of Type 1 Diabetes what a body in fluctuation feels, and what kind of ecosystem has to be recreated to be able to survive. (Open Access)

From the Archive: Neferti X.M. Tadiar, 'City Everywhere' - explores the defining tendencies of urban expansion taking place in mega-cities of the Global South, as exemplified by trends in Metropolitan Manila and elsewhere. (2016)

From the Archive: Erik Mygind du Plessis and Pelle Korsbæk Sørensen, 'An Interview with Arlie Russell Hochschild: Critique and the Sociology of Emotions: Fear, Neoliberalism and the Acid Rainproof Fish'. (2017)

New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Jack Black and Jacob Johanssen, 'The Subject of AI: A Psychoanalytic Intervention' - explores psychoanalytic perspectives on artificial intelligence, with a focus on chatbots like ChatGPT. (Open Access)

From the Archive: Alastair Bonnett, 'The Dilemmas of Radical Nostalgia in British Psychogeography' - argues that British psychogeography is an arena of conflict between unresolved strands within radicalism. (2009)

ICYMI: Annabel Herzog, 'Dilemmas of Political Agency and Sovereignty: The Omelian Allegory, - a political reading of Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’, which examines agency and resistance in situations of political wrong.

ICYMI: Cristián Simonetti, 'Viscosity in Matter, Life and Sociality: The Case of Glacial Ice' - explores the concept of viscosity, attending to how it has impacted on understandings of matter, as well as broader social and cultural issues.

From the Archive: Joyce C.H. Liu, 'Against Agamben: Sovereignty and the Void in the Discourse of the Nation in Early Modern China' - addresses the question of sovereignty and the void in the discourse of nation in early modern China. (2015)

From the Archive: Sebastian Vehlken, 'Zootechnologies: Swarming as a Cultural Technique' - examines the media history of swarm research and the significance of swarming techniques to current socio-technological processes. (2013)

ICYMI: David Mwambari and Eric Sibomana 'Bodily Scars as Lived Memory in Post-Genocide Rwanda' - argues that bodily scars are potent ‘carriers’ of memories of mass atrocities committed during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. (Open Access)

ICYMI: Henrik Enroth, 'Declarations of Dependence: On the Constitution of the Anthropocene' - argues that our entering the Anthropocene amounts to a constitutive moment: a moment in which new principles of coexistence are being declared. (Open Access)

From the Archive: Melinda Cooper, 'Pre-empting Emergence: The Biological Turn in the War on Terror' - looks at the increasing prominence of bioterrorist threat scenarios in US foreign policy. (2006)

From the Archive: Loïc Wacquant, 'Inside the Zone: The Social Art of the Hustler in the Black American Ghetto' - illumines the meshing of social structure and experience in the ghetto by dissecting the practices of a professional `hustler'. (1998)

ICYMI: Andrew Barry, 'What Is an Environmental Problem?' - interrogates the strength and limitations of empiricist accounts of problems and issues offered by actor-network theory. (Open Access)