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.
Ulrich Beck (1944-2015)
Review: Barbara Cassin et. al., ‘Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon’
Reviewed by Lucie Mercier
Rowland Atkinson: Commentary on Piketty’s and Savage’s Conversation
Benedict Anderson: A Reflection
By Rita Padawangi
Questioning ‘Racial Prescriptions’: An Interview with Jonathan Xavier Inda
Interviewed by Sibille Merz
Remembering Benedict Anderson and his Influence on South Asian Studies
By Rohit K Dasgupta
Review: Pasi Väliaho, Biopolitical Screens: Image, Power, and the Neoliberal Brain
Reviewed by Jakob Nilsson
Review: Sybille Krämer, ‘Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy’
Reviewed by David W. Hill
Video: Ole Bjerg on How is Bitcoin Money?
Review: Maurizio Lazzarato, ‘Governing by Debt’
Reviewed by Moritz Altenried
Video: Henning Schmidgen on Cerebral Drawings between Art and Science: On Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy of Concepts
Video: Anna Harris on Listening-touch, Affect and the Crafting of Medical Bodies through Percussion
Luke Cooper: Commentary on Thomas Piketty and Mike Savage’s Conversation
Africa in Oceania: Thinking Besides the Subaltern
By Robbie Shilliam
Review: Peter Sloterdijk, ‘Der Ästhetische Imperativ: Schriften zur Kunst’
Reviewed by Sascha Rashof
Video: Kiyoshi Abe on Ulrich Beck and Japan
Video: Dwight Towers, ‘Anti-reflexivity for Beginners’
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
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