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: Iuraşcu et. al., ‘Friedrich Kittler: Operation Valhalla’
Reviewed by Fabian Lorenz Winter
Review: Diana Knight (ed.), ‘Interdisciplinary Barthes’
Reviewed by Alex Wermer-Colan
Review: Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J. R. Osborn, ‘African Art Reframed: Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Cultures’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Review: Karen Fog Olwig et. al., ‘The Biometric Border World’
Reviewed by Olajide Salawu
Review: Rita Felski, ‘Hooked. Art and Attachment’
Reviewed by María Angélica Thumala Olave
Review: Julian Go, ‘Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory’
Reviewed by Jessica K. Gill
Review: Gaurav J. Pathania, ‘The University as a Site of Resistance’
Reviewed by Ruhail Andrabi
Review: Amit Pinchevski, ‘Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma’
Reviewed by Norma Musih
Review: Aaron Bastani, ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto’
Reviewed by Mark Featherstone
Review: Rebecca Coleman, ‘Glitterworlds. The Future Politics of a Ubiquitous Thing’
Reviewed by Signe Ravn
Review: Donatella Di Cesare, ‘Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration’
Reviewed by Emmanuel Jouai
Review: Louise Amoore, ‘Cloud Ethics’
Reviewed by Suryansu Guha
Review: Alain Badiou, ‘The Pornographic Age’
Reviewed by Ekin Erkan
Review: Craig Lundy, ‘Deleuze’s Bergsonism’
Reviewed by Alex Gomez-Marin
Review: Plessner, ‘Political Anthropology’ and ‘Levels of Organic Life and the Human’ & Fischer, ‘Exzentrische Postionalität’
Reviewed by Austin Harrington
Review: Francesca Ferrando, ‘Philosophical Posthumanism’
Reviewed by Alexander Thomas
Review: Sandro Chignola, ‘Foucault’s Politics of Philosophy. Power, Law and Subjectivity’
Reviewed by Irene Dal Poz
Review: Lisa Blackman, ‘Haunted Data: Affect, Transmedia and Weird Science’
Reviewed by Carolyn Pedwell
Review: ‘Pattern Discrimination’, by Apprich, Chun, Cramer & Steyerl
Reviewed by Nicola Bozzi
Review: John Smyth, ‘The Toxic University’
Reviewed by Filip Vostal
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
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