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From the Archive: Don Slater, 'Making Things Real' - draws on an on-line ethnography of people exchanging sexually explicit material (`sexpics') and communications over Internet Relay Chat (IRC). (2002) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Irina Aristarkhova, 'Ectogenesis and Mother as Machine' - addresses the neglected nexus between the mother and the machine in relation to the notion of ectogenesis (that is, conception, gestation and birth outside the maternal body). (2005) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Cal Biruk, 'Trans Embodiment, Fitness Wearables and the Queer Pleasures of Datafication' - focusing on a wearable fitness device, the author explores how selves, bodies, data and technologies are entangled in mutual and open-ended becomings. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
New as Online First: Kate Soper, 'Against the Common Good: The Role of Capitalist Consumer Culture' - reflects on the form an ‘alternative hedonist’ politics of prosperity might take and how it could hook up with more explicit and militant commoning initiatives. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
From the Archive: Markus Krajewski, 'The Power of Small Gestures: On the Cultural Technique of Service' - develops the notion of service as a cultural technique, and the media-theoretical figure of the servant as its servomechanism. (2013) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Myra J Hird Waste, 'Environmental Politics and Dis/Engaged Publics' - explores the shifting environmental politics concerned with waste’s material, economic, political, and cultural ‘management’. (2015) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Archive: Edward E. Telles, 'US Foundations and Racial Reasoning in Brazil' - examines the role played by US foundations in shaping the academic field of race relations and a black social movement in Brazil. (2003) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
ICYMI: Mathias Hein Jessen and Nicolai von Eggers, 'Governmentality and Statification: Towards a Foucauldian Theory of the State' - focuses on Foucault’s notion of the state as a process of ‘statification’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
ICYMI: Prasenjit Duara, 'Oceans as the Paradigm of History' - explains how the temporality of historical flows can be understood through the paradigm of oceanic circulations of water. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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If materiality is necessary for social order, we can usefully investigate what happens in
social settings (such as, in this case, an Internet setting)...
