Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory

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Really pleased that my article “The Biopolitical Economy of the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Possibilities for an Affirmative Biopolitics” is now published online ⁦@DistinktionT⁩. 50 free copies available here. tandfonline.com/eprint/MXCIHZU…

New work by Todd McGowan at @DistinktionT: Sublimating the commodity -- "Under capitalism, this logic of accumulation becomes grafted onto the free act of sublimation. Freedom becomes deformed into the choice for an unending drive to accumulate." 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

~ From our curated Bibliography Using the notion of material embeddedness, @h_karlstrom examines the possible implications of a further propagation of Bitcoin. By @DistinktionT tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Special Issue of Distinktion on the asset economy out now: essays on property, inequality, platforms, human capital, time and nihilism in an asset-driven economic system. tandfonline.com/toc/rdis20/cur…

Just out - Distinktion's last issue of 2021! It's a Special Issue on "Affect and Reason in Deeply Divided Societies" edited by Lars Tønder. The introduction is available free of charge, and a number of the contributions are available as open access. tandfonline.com/toc/rdis20/cur…

Our Call for Papers for a special issue on "Social Theory in an Age of Machine Learning", edited by @CboMpp, is still open - deadline April 15. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues…

"Rather than beginning with the very imbrication of affect and reason ... the debate tends to define each dimension from the perspective of the other. That is, either reason is seen from the perspective of affect, or the other way around."

Lars Tønder's introduction to the special issue on "Affect and Reason in Deeply Divided Societies" is available free of charge. Presents an incisive analysis of the affect-reason debate: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory is now on twitter! Follow us for regular updates, and please get in touch if you want to discuss a potential article or propose a Special Issue.

We've got some exciting Special Issues coming up, starting with the next issue. Meanwhile, editor's pick from the current issue: "The populist moment: affective orders, protest, and politics of belonging" by Mareike Gebhardt tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…