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: Discussion of Michel Foucault’s ‘The Punitive Society’
Hosted by Columbia University and the University of Warwick
Video: Henrik Enroth on ‘Declarations of Dependence’
Thanks to Reviewers
Journal News: December 2020
Latest issues from Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society
Video: Gitte du Plessis on ‘Arctic Biosemiotics and the Violence of Climate Change’
Video: Achille Mbembe, 'Notes on Brutalism'
Video: Stuart Elden on 'Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker'
Video: Tobias Skiveren on ‘Fictionality in New Materialism’
Video: Elisabetta Basso on ‘Foucault’s Critique of the Human Sciences in the 1950s’
Body & Society 25th Anniversary: An Interview with Bryan S Turner
Interviewed by Tomoko Tamari
Review: Amit Pinchevski, ‘Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma’
Reviewed by Norma Musih
Max Weber in Theory, Culture & Society. On the 100th Anniversary of His Death
By Matthias Wieser
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’
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