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“Air Conditioning and the Material Culture of Routine Human Encasement”:http://mcu.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/3/251?etoc There are many factors shaping the relationship between human bodies and their immediate environments and the mechanical control of ambient thermal conditions is playing an increasingly important part. It is with this in mind that this article travels to the tropical island of Singapore where [...]

“This was Labussiere’s simple but radical insight: Not only was state power resistable, it was water soluble.”

“Ben Kafka’s”:http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Ben_Kafka article on “paperwork, state power, and the French revolution”:http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/rep.2007.98.1.1 is really oodles of fun.

Latourian critique of Bourdieu, anyone?

“Sociological discourse of the relational: the cases of Bourdieu & Latour”:http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2007.00749.x