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: Bola Dauda and Toyin Falola, ‘Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Review: Daniela Agostinho et. al., ‘(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art’
Reviewed by Lila Lee-Morrison
Review: Illan Rua Wall, ‘Law and Disorder: Sovereignty, Protest, Atmosphere’
Reviewed by Costas Douzinas
Review: Daniel Herwitz, ‘The Political Power of Visual Art: Liberty, Solidarity, and Rights’
Reviewed by Eva Díaz
Review: Jonathan Crary, ‘Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World’
Reviewed by Henry Powell
Review: Kieran Durkin and Joan Braune (eds.), ‘Erich Fromm’s Critical Theory’
Reviewed by Daniel F. Davis
Review: Atul Kohli, ‘Imperialism and the Developing World’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Review: Kevin B. Anderson, Kieran Durkin, and Heather Brown, (eds.) ‘Raya Dunayevskaya's Intersectional Marxism’
Reviewed by Alyssa Adamson
Review: Zygmunt Bauman, ‘Culture and Art: Selected Writings, Vol. 1’
Reviewed by Elena Álvarez-Álvarez
Review: Clare Birchall, ‘Radical Secrecy’
Reviewed by Matthew Potolsky
Review: Bettina Brandt and Britta Hochkirchen, ‘Reinhart Koselleck und das Bild’
Reviewed by Sean Franzel
Review: Patrick ffrench, ‘Roland Barthes and Film’
Reviewed by Neil Badmington
Review: Charlton McIlwain, ‘Black Software’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Review: Beatriz Aldana Marquez, ‘From the Peaceable to the Barbaric’
Reviewed by Ana Cristina Ramírez Barreto
Review: Erich Hörl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, and Lotte Warnsholdt (eds.), ‘Critique and the Digital’
Reviewed by Bryan Norton
Review: Bernard E. Harcourt, ‘Critique and Praxis’
Reviewed by Ali Sadeghi
Review: Achille Mbembe, ‘Out of the Dark Night’
Reviewed by Bulelani Jili
Review: Gerard Delanty (ed.), ‘Pandemics, Politics, and Society: Critical Perspectives on the Covid-19 Crisis’
Reviewed by Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Review: Rosi Braidotti, ‘Posthuman Knowledge’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Review: Lars Spuybroek, ‘Grace and Gravity. Architectures of the Figure’
Reviewed by Vera Bühlmann
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
TCS Book Series
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