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: Tribute to Bernard Stiegler
Video: Martin Albrow on 'Max Weber: From Modernity to Globality'
Roy Boyne 1947-2020
By Scott Lash
Video: Maria Tamboukou on ‘The Non-Nomadic Subject of Feminism’
Review: Aaron Bastani, ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto’
Reviewed by Mark Featherstone
Journal News: October 2020
Review: Rebecca Coleman, ‘Glitterworlds. The Future Politics of a Ubiquitous Thing’
Reviewed by Signe Ravn
Video: Thomas Kemple on ‘A Century after Weber and Simmel’
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’
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