Pub Date : 2024-08-11DOI: 10.1080/1600910x.2024.2388530
Sina Farzin, Michael Guggenheim, Monika Krause
Published in Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于 Distinktion:社会理论期刊》(2024 年提前出版)
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Pub Date : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1080/1600910x.2024.2381469
Arthur Bueno
This paper revisits Lukács’s and Adorno’s analyses of reification to articulate a diagnosis that accounts both for its tendencies towards authoritarianism and its emancipatory potentials. Despite t...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-10DOI: 10.1080/1600910x.2024.2374560
Timothy Bewes
This article considers two questions asked by two very different thinkers through a concept that only one of them uses, and only in a nontechnical sense: ‘totality’: What is the basis of the novel’...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-18DOI: 10.1080/1600910x.2024.2365758
Edda Sant, Ásgeir Tryggvason
The question ‘What is to be done?’ underpins Chantal Mouffe’s agonistic theory of democratic politics. Yet, despite this affirmative tone that distinguishes her from other radical theorists, her th...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-16DOI: 10.1080/1600910x.2024.2352043
Thomas Sutherland, Scott Wark
This article uses the search engine as a heuristic for reflecting upon the extent to which knowledge production within the academy both shapes and is shaped by the media that it studies and with wh...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-24DOI: 10.1080/1600910x.2024.2329611
Ilan Kapoor, Gavin Fridell, Maureen Sioh, Pieter de Vries, Hasmet Uluorta, Hannah Richter, Christian Caiconte, María Gómez
This is a forum containing six short interventions on the 2023 co-authored book, Global Libidinal Economy. In the first intervention, the co-authors lay out their book’s key arguments. What follows...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-21DOI: 10.1080/1600910x.2024.2326448
Lukáš Likavčan
Since the notion of the Anthropocene entered the discourse of environmental humanities, it has prompted multiple conceptual innovations. This paper focuses on one such case: the term planetary – an...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-20DOI: 10.1080/1600910x.2024.2331751
William Davies
The concept of ‘reaction’ has been frequently viewed pejoratively in the history of social and moral theory, as unthinking and often resentful. But ‘reactions’ of various kinds play a central role ...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-06DOI: 10.1080/1600910x.2024.2314457
Andrei Belibou
In this paper, I analyze three categories of narratives that seek to understand identity politics’ role on the American left through the lens of co-optation. The first, represented primarily by Fre...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1080/1600910x.2024.2320661
Tim Christiaens
Digital innovations are rapidly changing the contemporary workplace. Big Tech companies marketing algorithmic management increasingly decide on the Future of Work. Political responses, however, oft...
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