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: Donatella Di Cesare, ‘Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration’
Reviewed by Emmanuel Jouai
Video: Manfred Steger on ‘Disjunctive Globalization in the Era of the Great Unsettling’
Video: Gabriel O. Apata on 'The Suffocating Nature of Racism'
Technics of Memory and Life: Bernard Stiegler in Memoriam
By Scott Lash
Out now: September 2020 Issue
Review: Louise Amoore, ‘Cloud Ethics’
Reviewed by Suryansu Guha
Video: Mikkel Krause Frantzen and Jens Bjering on ‘Ecology, Capitalism and Waste’
Video: Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli on ‘Whose Dance Is It Anyway?: Property, Copyright and the Commons’
Video: Rakesh Sengupta on ‘The Absent Archive of Screenwriting History and the Obsolete Munshi’
Review: Alain Badiou, ‘The Pornographic Age’
Reviewed by Ekin Erkan
TCS Special Issue: Neutral Life / Late Barthes
Edited by Sunil Manghani
Video: Maurizio Meloni on ‘Porous Bodies: Environmental Biopower and the Politics of Life in Ancient Rome’
Video: Rafaela Granja on 'The (De)materialization of Criminal Bodies in Forensic DNA Phenotyping'
Video: Xuenan Cao on ‘Bullet Screens (Danmu)’
Journal News: June 2020
Latest Special Issues from Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society
Review: Craig Lundy, ‘Deleuze’s Bergsonism’
Reviewed by Alex Gomez-Marin
Video: Jane Macnaughton on ‘Making Breath Visible’
Video: Paolo Totaro on ‘Biological Recursion and Digital Systems’
Video: Blake Allen on ‘Merleau-Ponty: Beauty, Phenomenology, and the ‘Theological Turn”
Video: Andrew Russell on ‘Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World’
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