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: Mickey Vallee on ‘The Science of Listening in Bioacoustics Research’
Review: Austin Harrington, ‘German Cosmopolitan Thought and the Idea of the West: Voices from Weimar’
Reviewed by Thomas Kemple
Video: Mickey Vallee on ‘Technology, Embodiment, and Affect in Voice Sciences’
Review: Penelope Deutscher and Cristina Lafont, ‘Critical Theory in Critical Times: Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order’
Reviewed by Jerome Braun
Video: Kathryn Yusoff and Nigel Clark on ‘Geosocial Formations and the Anthropocene’
Review: Sean Cubitt, ‘Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies’
Reviewed by Sandra Robinson
Redoing the Demos? An Interview with Wendy Brown
Interviewed by Samuel Burgum, Sebastian Raza, and Jorge Vasquez
Review: Achille Mbembe, ‘Critique of Black Reason’
Reviewed by Gabriel O Apata
Review: Jussi Parikka, ‘Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses’
Reviewed by Roger Whitson
‘The Incorporeal’: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz
Interviewed by Vikki Bell
Review: Srećko Horvat, ‘The Radicality of Love’
Reviewed by Julia Carter
Elinor Carmi: Cookies – More than Meets the Eye
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
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
Painting / Knowledge, edited by Sunil Manghani
Judith Butler, edited by Elena Loizidou
Pierre Bourdieu, edited by Derek Robbins
Ulrich Beck, edited by Gabe Mythen
Zygmunt Bauman, edited by Thomas Campbell, Mark Davis, Austin Harrington & Jack Palmer
John Urry, edited by Mimi Sheller
Complexity, edited by Oliver Human
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