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: Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues, ‘Foucault in Brazil’
Reviewed by Marcelo Hoffman
Review: Jean-Daniel Rainhorn and Samira El Boudamoussi, ‘New Cannibal Markets’
Reviewed by Anouck Alary
Video: Bruce Clarke’s ‘Rethinking Gaia: Stengers, Latour, Margulis’
Review: Isabelle Stengers, ‘In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism’
Reviewed by Nicholas Beuret
Review: Victoria Pitts-Taylor, ‘The Brain’s Body: Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics’
Reviewed by Jaime D. Wright
Review: Dawn Nafus, ‘Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life’
Reviewed by Phoebe Moore
Video: Rachel Busbridge on Israel-Palestine and the Settler Colonial ‘Turn’
Video: Cosmopolitan Sociology and Confucian Worldview: Beck’s Theory in East Asia
Review: Wilmer & Žukauskaitė, ‘Resisting Biopolitics’
Reviewed by Jacob Chamberlain
Review: Wolfgang Ernst, ‘Sonic Time Machines’
Reviewed by Stephen Cornford
Review: Donna Haraway, ‘Manifestly Haraway’
Reviewed by Joanna Latimer
Video: Muhammad Ali Nasir on Biopolitics, Thanatopolitics and the Right to Life
Earwitnesses of a Coup Night: The Many Media Infrastructures of Social Action
By Jussi Parikka
Review: Alexej Ulbricht, ‘Multicultural Immunisation: Liberalism and Esposito’
Reviewed by Ros Williams
TCS E-Special Issue: John Urry
Edited by Mimi Sheller
Video: Mickey Vallee on Rhythm, Echoes & Violence
Video: Dennis Rodgers on Urban Violence
Daniel Smith on Broadchurch as a Country Noir
Review: Pierre Bourdieu, ‘On the State: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992’
Reviewed by Rohit Chopra
Review: Richard Grusin, ‘The Nonhuman Turn’
Reviewed by Astrida Neimanis
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