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: Claudio Celis Bueno, ‘The Attention Economy: Labour, Time and Power in Cognitive Capitalism’
Reviewed by Ben Turner
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’
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