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.
In Memory of Couze Venn
By Mike Featherstone
Review: John Smyth, ‘The Toxic University’
Reviewed by Filip Vostal
Video: Arianne Conty on ‘The Politics of Nature: New Materialist Responses to the Anthropocene’
Review: Susanna Paasonen, ‘Many Splendored Things: Thinking Sex and Play’
Reviewed by João Florêncio
Review: Martijn Konings, ‘Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason’
Reviewed by Samuel Kirwan
Review: Jennifer Robertson, ‘Robo Sapiens Japanicus'
Reviewed by Mona Abaza
Video: Laurel Jean Fredrickson on Robert Filliou and the Eternal Network
Video: Alexandra Deem on the No Dakota Access Pipeline Movement
Review: Elizabeth Goodstein, ‘Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary’
Reviewed by Mark Featherstone
Think-Piece: Commemoration and Spectacle in the Centenary of Women’s Suffrage
Laura E. Nym Mayhall reflects on the suffrage movement. Are we all militants now?
Review: Samuel Burgum, ‘Occupying London: Post Crash Resistance and the Limits of Possibility’
Reviewed by Pete Bearder
Review: Kehinde Andrews, ‘Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Think-Piece: The Neglected Intellectual Legacy of '1968'
Couze Venn reflects on the 50th anniversary of May '68
Video: Seán Williams on ‘Cancer Coiffures’
Vanessa E. Thompson: Commentary on David Goldberg’s Conversation with Achille Mbembe
Review: Ali Rattansi, ‘Bauman and Contemporary Sociology’
Reviewed by Katy Wright
Robbie Shilliam: Commentary on David Goldberg’s Conversation with Achille Mbembe
Gabriel Apata: Commentary on David Theo Goldberg's Conversation with Achille Mbembe
In Conversation: Achille Mbembe and David Theo Goldberg on ‘Critique of Black Reason’
Review: Vicki Kirby, ‘What if Culture Was Nature All Along?’
Reviewed by Nick Mansfield
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