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.
AI and Society: ‘New Media Literacy and Politics’ (Online Seminar)
Video: ‘Foucault’s Confessions’ Online Series
Review: Iuraşcu et. al., ‘Friedrich Kittler: Operation Valhalla’
Reviewed by Fabian Lorenz Winter
Video: Mickey Vallee on 'Starling Murmurations and the Dynamic of Becoming In-formation'
Review: Diana Knight (ed.), ‘Interdisciplinary Barthes’
Reviewed by Alex Wermer-Colan
Review: Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J. R. Osborn, ‘African Art Reframed: Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Cultures’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Video: Nicholas Gane on 'Nudge Economics as Libertarian Paternalism'
Review: Karen Fog Olwig et. al., ‘The Biometric Border World’
Reviewed by Olajide Salawu
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’
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