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.
Rohit Dasgupta: Ambalavaner Sivanandan and Black Politics in Britain
A look at the contribution made by Ambalavaner Sivanandan to Black politics and organising in Britain
Review: Paolo Virno, ‘When the Word becomes Flesh. Language and Human Nature’
Reviewed by Arianna Bove
Review: Heinrich Popitz, ‘Phenomena of Power: Authority, Domination, and Violence’
Reviewed by Austin Harrington
Video: Marcelo Hoffman on Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues’ ‘Michel Foucault in Brazil’
Video: Sebastian Raza on ‘An Interview with Wendy Brown: Redoing the Demos?’
Against “Aging”: How to Talk about Growing Older
By Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Video: Jenni Millbank on ‘Exploring the Ineffable in Women’s Experiences of Relationality with their Stored IVF Embryos’
Video Special Section: Rebecca Coleman and Liz Oakley-Brown on ‘Visualizing Surfaces, Surfacing Vision’
Review: Zygmunt Bauman, ‘Retrotopia’
Reviewed by Zeger Polhuijs
Video: Rowland Atkinson on ‘Elite Formation, Power and Space in Contemporary London’
Video: Mairi Maclean on ‘Elite Business Networks and the Field of Power: A Matter of Class?’
To be Human: An Interview with Daniel Chernilo
Interviewed by David Beer
Review: Lars Spuybroek, ‘The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design’
Reviewed by Carl Knappett
Review: Stuart Hall, ‘Familiar Stranger’ and ‘Selected Political Writings’
Reviewed by Tony Jefferson
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’
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
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
'Killer Cities', Nigel Thrift
'From Being to Living' (De l'Être au Vivre), François Jullien
'After Capital', Couze Venn
'Sociology of the Sacred', Philip A Mellor, Chris Shilling
'Understanding the Chinese City', Li Shiqiao
'The Consumer Society', Jean Baudrillard
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