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: Lisa Lowe, ‘The Intimacies of Four Continents’
Reviewed by John Holmwood
Video: Simon Dalby on Anthropocene Formations: Environmental Security, Geopolitics and Disaster
Video: Monique Tschofen on The Denkbild (‘Thought-Image’) in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Video: Andrea Fumagalli and Stefano Lucarelli on Finance, Austerity and Commonfare
Video: Peng Yu on Zones of Indeterminacy: Art, Body and Politics in Daoist Thought
In Conversation: Thomas Pinketty and Mike Savage
Neoliberation: The Self in the Era of New Media
Is liberation passé?
Review: Michel Foucault, ‘On the Government of the Living’
Reviewed by Sophie Fuggle
Video: John Urry on Offshore Worlds and Social Futures
Rob Stones on News, Current Affairs, Audiences and Social Theorists
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
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