Polity

Cryptocurrencies are often associated with right-wing political movements, or even with the alt-right. They are the preserve of libertarians and fa...

From their shadowy origins in Bitcoin to their use by multinational corporations, cryptocurrencies and blockchains are remaking the rules of digita...

From their shadowy origins in Bitcoin to their use by multinational corporations, cryptocurrencies and blockchains are remaking the rules of digita...

The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global tre...

The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global tre...

What has the death of Corporal Patrick D. Tillman of the US Army Rangers in an incident of friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004 got to do with cult...

What has the death of Corporal Patrick D. Tillman of the US Army Rangers in an incident of friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004 got to do with cult...

Culture, Raymond Williams once wrote, is one of the most difficult words in language. Since then the concept has become part of our everyday vocabu...

Culture, Raymond Williams once wrote, is one of the most difficult words in language. Since then the concept has become part of our everyday vocabu...

The sociological imagination and the artistic imagination have been historically intertwined, at once reciprocal and conflicting, complementary and...

The sociological imagination and the artistic imagination have been historically intertwined, at once reciprocal and conflicting, complementary and...

How does culture shape our thinking? In what ways do our social and cultural worlds enter into our mental worlds? How do the communities we belong ...

How does culture shape our thinking? In what ways do our social and cultural worlds enter into our mental worlds? How do the communities we belong ...

All major western countries today contain groups that differ in their religious beliefs, customary practices or ideas about the right way in which ...

In its original formulation, ‘culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating ‘the people' by bring...

In its original formulation, ‘culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating ‘the people' by bring...

Today, interest in networks is growing by leaps and bounds, in both scientific discourse and popular culture. Networks are thought to be everywhere...

Today, interest in networks is growing by leaps and bounds, in both scientific discourse and popular culture. Networks are thought to be everywhere...

The term ‘culture industry’ has been a key reference point in the critical literature on culture and the media ever since the classic chapter in Ho...

The term ‘culture industry’ has been a key reference point in the critical literature on culture and the media ever since the classic chapter in Ho...

What does it mean that we can be reached on our mobile phones wherever we are and at all times? What are the cultural consequences if we are inform...

What does it mean that we can be reached on our mobile phones wherever we are and at all times? What are the cultural consequences if we are inform...

Curing their Ills traces the history of encounters between European medicine and African societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Vaugh...

Fleeing the Nazis, Theodor W. Adorno lived in New York City as a refugee from 1938 until 1941. During these years, he was intensively involved in a...