Stanislaw Lem’s 1964 opus, Summa Technolgiae, has only just been translated into English. Over half a century later, Lem’s work stands as an aston...

For the theorists of Afro-pessimism, black non-existence forms a negativity against which white liveliness and freedom defines itself positively. Surv...

  Harmony Korine's recent film Spring Breakers doesn't exactly reward stringent sociological critique. His use of manipulative, ...

Why do English sociologists and politicians find riots so much more explicable when they happen overseas? Nina Power finds an international logic...