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Politics & Society 51 (2023), 4
Historians typically explain the Marshall Plan (1948–52) as an effect of a bipartisan embrace of liberal internationalism, which became the dominant ideology of US foreign policy. However, predominant accounts downplay interpretive contention, historical contingencies, and counterfactual…
Politics & Society 51 (2023), 3
The proponents of a “neo-Brandeisian” approach to antitrust took on leadership roles in the Joe Biden administration, including Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); Jonathan Kanter, head of the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice (DOJ); Tim Wu, special assistant for…
Politics & Society 51 (2023), 2
This article introduces this special issue on the bicameral firm. It lays the groundwork by providing a brief overview of the democratic firm in its historical and political context. The article describes the main problems that large undemocratic corporations pose for society; it contrasts the main…
Politics & Society 51 (2023), 1
In recent years, housing costs have outpaced incomes in the United States, resulting in millions of eviction filings each year. Yet no study has examined the link between eviction and voting. Drawing on a novel data set that combines tens of millions of eviction and voting records, this article…
Politics & Society 50 (2022), 4
What is the place of the market in society? Polanyi's answer derives from institutional separation and the self-regulating mechanism of supply and demand. In this article, I offer an alternative approach. Following Aristotle, I suggest that commodity fiction follows from the fictitious nature of…
Thesis Eleven Issue 175, April 2023
This paper starts with the observation that at least for the last century there has been an orthodoxy in the social sciences characterized by sui generis structures of various kinds but also (paradoxically) by the unique role of individuals in their ability to intervene in the flow of events. This…
Thesis Eleven Issue 174, February 2023
Johann Arnason’s work combines the most erudite historical-comparative sociology, discussing highly knowledgeably enormous stretches of world-history, with the most subtle social and political philosophy, drawing creatively on the traditions of hermeneutics and phenomenology. Invariably, his works…
Thesis Eleven Issue 173, December 2022
Nationalism is often singled out as the powerful force that brought about the collapse of the last great land empires of the 19th and early 20th centuries. We offer a different picture: nationalism was weak before 1914, with war being caused by the fears of the great powers rather than pressures…
Theory, Culture & Society 40 (2023), 3
Isabelle Stengers’ cosmopolitical proposal is an influential attempt by a European philosopher to transform the burdensome legacy of Western thought. Reconsidering her comprehensive engagement with the cosmology of the British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, this article…
Theory, Culture & Society 40 (2023), 1-2
This introduction to the special issue ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France’ surveys Foucault’s work in the first part of his career. While there is a familiar chronology to the books he published in the 1960s – from History of Madness to The Archaeology of Knowledge – the story can be developed…
Theory, Culture & Society 39 (2022), 7-8
This article serves as the introduction to the Annual Review special section entitled ‘Bernard Stiegler and the Internation Project: Computational Practices and Circumscribed Futures’. As such, it introduces the collective undertaking of the Internation Project in relation to Stiegler’s long career…
Theory, Culture & Society 39 (2022), 6
The paper has two complementary objectives. First, it sustains an analysis of the concept of ‘coloniality’ that accounts for the epistemic imbalance in the modern world, demonstrating precisely how Africa is adversely affected, having been caught up in the throes of coloniality and its epistemic…
Bulletin of Sociological Methodology 158 (2023), 1
“Social’, ‘research’, ‘data’ and ‘analysis’: if we had wanted to choose our own words to describe what the BMS is about, we would probably not have done otherwise. For that is what we aim to publish in this journal, which Karl van Meter entrusted to us five years ago: articles in which our…