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: Dorit Geva on 'Orbán’s Ordonationalism as Post-Neoliberal Hegemony'
Review: Rita Felski, ‘Hooked. Art and Attachment’
Reviewed by María Angélica Thumala Olave
‘Foucault’s Confessions’. Free Online Series, May-June 2021
Review: Julian Go, ‘Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory’
Reviewed by Jessica K. Gill
Video: Carlos Palacios on ‘Symbiosis and the Humanitarian Marketplace’
Journal News: May 2021
Video: Daniel Smith on 'The Joke-Secret and an Ethics of Modern Individuality'
Video: Roger Burrows on 'Software, Sovereignty and the Post-Neoliberal Politics of Exit'
Journal News: March 2021
In Conversation: Daniel Ross and Ryan Bishop on Bernard Stiegler’s Internation
TCS Special Issue: ‘Problematizing the Problematic’
Edited by Martin Savransky
Video: Étienne Balibar, ‘Critical Reflections on the New Definition of the Human Species’
Video: Deborah Cowen, 'Crisis in Motion’
Video: Prasenjit Duara on 'Oceans as the Paradigm of History'
Video: Troels Krarup on 'Archaeological Methodology: Foucault and the History of Systems of Thought’
TCS Book Series: Nigel Thrift’s ‘Killer Cities’
An ‘epic compendium on the ravages of planetary urbanism from one of geography’s most generative thinkers’
Video: Daniele Lorenzini on 'Philosophical Discourse and Ascetic Practice'
Video: Andrea Di Gesu on 'Parrhesia, Community, and Democracy'
Journal News: January 2021
Review: Gaurav J. Pathania, ‘The University as a Site of Resistance’
Reviewed by Ruhail Andrabi
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