Welcome to 'Global Public Life', an open forum extending the discussions and debates that the academic, peer-reviewed journals Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society (and associated Theory, Culture & Society Book Series) have been fostering in social and cultural theory, along with the wider social sciences and humanities, for over four decades.
Review: Peter Sloterdijk, ‘Der Ästhetische Imperativ: Schriften zur Kunst’
Reviewed by Sascha Rashof
Review: Lisa Lowe, ‘The Intimacies of Four Continents’
Reviewed by John Holmwood
Review: Michel Foucault, ‘On the Government of the Living’
Reviewed by Sophie Fuggle
Review: Seyed Javad Miri, ‘Islamism and Post-Islamism: Reflections upon Allama Jafari’s Political Thought’
Reviewed by Sara Tafakori
Review: Rob Kitchin, ‘The Data Revolution’
Reviewed by David Moats
Review: Félix Guattari, ‘Machinic Eros: Writings on Japan’
Reviewed by Dario Lolli
Review: Eleni Ikoniadou, ‘The Rhythmic Event’
Reviewed by Paola Crespi
Review: Jussi Parikka, ‘A Geology of Media’
Reviewed by Sean Cubitt
Review: Keim et. al., ‘Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences’
Reviewed by Felipe Lagos
Review: Satnam Virdee, ‘Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider’
Reviewed by Margarita Aragon
Review: Büscher, Dressler and Fletcher, ‘Nature™ Inc. Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age’
Reviewed by Tiago Freitas
Review: Graham Harman, ‘Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political’
Reviewed by Conor Heaney
Review: Stuart Elden, ‘The Birth of Territory’
Reviewed by Dennis Crow
Review: Pierre Dardot & Christian Laval, ‘The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society’
Reviewed by Emanuele Leonardi
Review: Caroline Knowles, ‘Flip-Flop: A Journey through Globalisation’s Backroads’
Reviewed by Vicki Dabrowski
Review: Elettra Stimilli, ‘Il debito del vivente’
Reviewed by Matteo Pasquinelli
Review: Nikolas Rose & Joelle M. Abi-Rached, ‘Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind’
Reviewed by Sibille Merz
Review: Andreas Anter, ‘Max Weber’s Theory of the Modern State’
Reviewed by Christopher Adair-Toteff
Review: Vivian Ibraham & Margit Wunsch, ‘Political Leadership, Nations and Charisma’
Reviewed by Jerome Braun
Review: John Urry, ‘Offshoring’
Reviewed by David J. Madden
TCS Special Issues
Against Ontology: Chinese Thought and François Jullien, edited by Scott Lash and Shiqiao Li
Foucault before the Collège de France, edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?, edited by Martin Seeliger & Sebastian Sevignani
Solid Fluids, edited by Tim Ingold & Cristián Simonetti
Post-Neoliberalism?, edited by William Davies & Nicholas Gane
Problematizing the Problematic, edited by Martin Savransky
From the Archive
James Ash on Affective Transmission (2004)
Marcelo Hoffman on Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues: Michel Foucault in Brazil (2017)
Rosi Braidotti: ‘Posthuman, All Too Human: Towards a New Process Ontology’ (2006)
TCS E-Special Issues
Painting / Knowledge, edited by Sunil Manghani
Judith Butler, edited by Elena Loizidou
Pierre Bourdieu, edited by Derek Robbins
Ulrich Beck, edited by Gabe Mythen
Zygmunt Bauman, edited by Thomas Campbell, Mark Davis, Austin Harrington & Jack Palmer
John Urry, edited by Mimi Sheller
Complexity, edited by Oliver Human
TCS Book Series
'Killer Cities', Nigel Thrift
'From Being to Living' (De l'Être au Vivre), François Jullien
'After Capital', Couze Venn
'Sociology of the Sacred', Philip A Mellor, Chris Shilling
'Understanding the Chinese City', Li Shiqiao
'The Consumer Society', Jean Baudrillard
B&S Special Issues
Symmetries of Touch: Reconsidering Tactility in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing, edited by Rebekka Ladewig & Henning Schmidgen
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World, edited by Andrew Russell & Rebecca Oxley
The Body in Pain: A Re-engagement, edited by Leila Dawney & Timothy J Huzar
Skin Matters: Thinking Through the Body’s Surfaces, edited by Marc Lafrance
Indeterminate Bodies, edited by Claire Waterton & Kathryn Yusoff
Surveillance and Embodiment: Dispositifs of Capture, edited by Martin French & Gavin JD Smith