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.
Interview with Julia O’Connell Davidson on ‘Modern Slavery’
Interviewed by Angelo Martins Junior
Review: Jamie Lorimer, ‘Wildlife in the Anthropocene’
Reviewed by Gregory Hollin and Eva Giraud
William ‘Lez’ Henry on Education and Schooling
Review: David M. Berry and Michael Dieter, ‘Postdigital Aesthetics’
Reviewed by M. Beatrice Fazi
Moving with John Urry, by Mimi Sheller
A Mobile Life: John Urry, 1946-2016
By Peter Adey
John Urry (1946-2016)
Sunil Manghani on the 'Role' of Umberto Eco
Review: Wendy Brown, ‘Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution’
Reviewed by Nicholas Gane
Video: Eva Giraud and Gregory Hollin on Care, Laboratory Beagles and Affective Utopia
Video: Alberto Romele and Marta Severo on The Economy of the Digital Gift: From Socialism to Sociality Online
Video: David Newheiser on Foucault, Gary Becker and the Critique of Neoliberalism
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
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