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.
TCS Book Series: François Jullien’s ‘From Being to Living’
A compelling summation of Jullien’s thinking on the comparison and divergences between Western and Chinese thought.
Video: Kristin Plys on ‘The Poetry of Resistance’
Review: Plessner, ‘Political Anthropology’ and ‘Levels of Organic Life and the Human’ & Fischer, ‘Exzentrische Postionalität’
Reviewed by Austin Harrington
Review: Francesca Ferrando, ‘Philosophical Posthumanism’
Reviewed by Alexander Thomas
Review: Sandro Chignola, ‘Foucault’s Politics of Philosophy. Power, Law and Subjectivity’
Reviewed by Irene Dal Poz
Thanks to Reviewers
Video: Muneeb Hafiz on ‘Smashing the Imperial Frame: Race, Culture, (De)Coloniality’
Video: Rob Coley 'In Defence of ‘Noir Theory’: Laruelle, Deleuze, and Other Detectives'
Video: Indrek Ibrus and Maarja Ojamaa on ‘The Creativity of Digital (Audiovisual) Archives’
Video: Mats Nilsson & Mekonnen Tesfahuney on ‘What Space for Female Subjectivity in the Post-Secular?’
Video: Nicholas Gane on ‘Competition: A Critical History of a Concept’
TCS Special Issue: Transversal Posthumanities
Edited by Matthew Fuller and Rosi Braidotti
Review: Lisa Blackman, ‘Haunted Data: Affect, Transmedia and Weird Science’
Reviewed by Carolyn Pedwell
Video: Olga Cielemęcka and Christine Daigle on ‘Posthuman Sustainability: An Ethos for our Anthropocenic Future’
Video: Emily Rosamond on ‘From Reputation Capital to Reputation Warfare’
Video: Cristián Simonetti on ‘The Petrified Anthropocene’
Video: Pia Heike Johansen on ‘Listening to Silence: Bringing Forward the Background Noise of Being’
Review: ‘Pattern Discrimination’, by Apprich, Chun, Cramer & Steyerl
Reviewed by Nicola Bozzi
Video: Adam Arvidsson on ‘Capitalism and the Commons’
Video: Sang-Jin Han on ‘Dialogue with John Dunn on Korean Denuclearization’
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