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.
Video: Rosa Vasilaki on the Politics of Postsecular Feminism
Patricia Mooney Nickel on Culture, Politics and Governing
Video: Katrin Tiidenberg and Edgar Gómez Cruz on Selfies, Image and the Body
Review: Seyed Javad Miri, ‘Islamism and Post-Islamism: Reflections upon Allama Jafari’s Political Thought’
Reviewed by Sara Tafakori
Les Back: How Blue Can You Get? B.B. King, Planetary Humanism and the Blues Behind Bars (Part Two)
Video: Emily Cohen on Disciplining Pain and Masculinity
Les Back: How Blue Can You Get? B.B. King, Planetary Humanism and the Blues Behind Bars (Part One)
Review: Rob Kitchin, ‘The Data Revolution’
Reviewed by David Moats
Review: Félix Guattari, ‘Machinic Eros: Writings on Japan’
Reviewed by Dario Lolli
‘Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain’: An Interview with Dr. Lisa McKenzie
Interviewed by Vicki Dabrowski
Review: Eleni Ikoniadou, ‘The Rhythmic Event’
Reviewed by Paola Crespi
Review: Jussi Parikka, ‘A Geology of Media’
Reviewed by Sean Cubitt
Lee Mackinnon: Commentary on Ross Abbinnett’s ‘Trolling the Net’
‘Exercises in the History of Ideas’: An Interview with Stuart Elden
Interviewed by Dale Leorke and Suneel Jethani
Yiğit Soncul on Masks and Emergency in Turkey
Ralph Schroeder: Commentary on Volker H. Schmidt’s ‘Breakthrough of Global Modernity’
Video: Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson & Helen Owton on Intense Embodiment
Rhythmanalysis: An Interview with Paola Crespi
Interviewed by Sunil Manghani
Review: Keim et. al., ‘Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences’
Reviewed by Felipe Lagos
Video: Paola Crespi on Rhythmanalysis
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