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: Rosalind Cooper on ‘Pastoral Power and Algorithmic Governmentality’
Video: Madeleine Pape on ‘Expertise and Non-binary Bodies: Sex, Gender and the Case of Dutee Chand’
TCS Philosophy & Literature Conference 2019
Rita Felski: My Sociology Envy
Video: ‘Truth, Fiction, Illusion: Worlds & Experience' Conference 2019
Video: Natasja Kingod on ‘Noise as Dysappearance: Attuning to a Life with Type 1 Diabetes’
Gabriel O. Apata: On Not Being Achille Mbembe
The question is why did many mistake me for Mbembe? Apart from the fact that we were both black men, African, spectacle-wearing and shaven-headed.
Video: Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire on ‘Risk and the Spectral Politics of Disability’
Video: Giuseppe Longo on ‘Quantifying the World and Its Webs: Mathematical Discrete vs Continua in Knowledge Construction’
Video: Mark Paterson – ‘On Pain as a Distinct Sensation: Mapping Intensities, Affects, and Difference in ‘Interior States’’
Video: David Gruber on ‘There Is No Brain: Rethinking Neuroscience through a Nomadic Ontology’
Video: Illan rua Wall on ‘Policing Atmospheres: Crowds, Protest and ‘Atmotechnics’’
Video: Mark Paterson on ‘Architecture of Sensation: Affect, Motility and the Oculomotor’
Video: Esposito & Stark: ‘What’s Observed in a Rating? Rankings as Orientation in the Face of Uncertainty’
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
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