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: Sang-Jin Han on ‘Dialogue with John Dunn on Korean Denuclearization’
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
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