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.
Gurminder Bhambra: What does the Haitian Revolution tell us about the Society of Equals?
Craig Martin on Adhocism
Review: Elettra Stimilli, ‘Il debito del vivente’
Reviewed by Matteo Pasquinelli
The future of affect theory: An interview with Margaret Wetherell
Interviewed by David Beer
Brian Castellani on the Complexity Sciences
Review: Nikolas Rose & Joelle M. Abi-Rached, ‘Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind’
Reviewed by Sibille Merz
James Ash on Affective Transmission
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
The Entanglements of Interdisciplinarity: An Interview with Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard
Interviewed by David Beer
Review: John Urry, ‘Offshoring’
Reviewed by David J. Madden
William Outhwaite on Habermas and Historical Materialism
Samuel Burgum and A.N.Onymous on Rancière and Occupy
Hannah Jones & Emma Jackson: Creeping Familiarities and Cosmopolitan Futures
Video: David Tyfield and John Urry on Energy & Society
Video: Kate Maddalena and Jeremy Packer on the Digital Body
Video: Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard on Social Science and Neuroscience beyond Interdisciplinarity
Video: Kyung Man Kim on Habermas, Rorty and the Politics of Cultural Change
AbdouMaliq Simone on Cities, Neoliberalism and the Commons
Video: Joanna Latimer on 'Being Alongside: Rethinking Relations amongst Different Kinds'
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