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 of Matthew Watson, ‘The Market’
Reviewed by William Davies
Review: Laurence Roulleau Berger, ‘Post-Western Revolution in Sociology’
Reviewed by Aurélien Boucher
Review: Andrew Feenberg, ‘Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason’
Reviewed by Alexander Thomas
Review: Paul Stenner, ‘Liminality and Experience’
Reviewed by Robbie Duschinsky and Samantha Reisz
Review: John Urry, ‘What is the Future?’
Reviewed by David Tyfield
Review: Aihwa Ong, ‘Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life’
Reviewed by Ayo Wahlberg
Video: William Pawlett on Bataille and Baudrillard
Review: across & beyond – A transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts, and Institutions
Reviewed by Lai-Tze Fan
Review: Yuk Hui, ‘On The Existence of Digital Objects’
Reviewed by Maria Dada
Review: Michel Foucault, ‘Confessions of the Flesh’
Reviewed by Stuart Elden
Review: Jo Littler, ‘Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power, and Myths of Mobility’
Reviewed by Diane Reay
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
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