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: Achille Mbembe, ‘Out of the Dark Night’
Reviewed by Bulelani Jili
Video: Joseph S. Alter on 'Biosemiotics and Religion'
Video: Mark Paterson on ‘Disability, Sensory Substitution and the Origins of the Neuroplastic Subject’
Video: Joe P.L. Davidson on 'Dub, Utopia and the Ruins of the Caribbean'
Visual Experiments in Drone Power
Review: Gerard Delanty (ed.), ‘Pandemics, Politics, and Society: Critical Perspectives on the Covid-19 Crisis’
Reviewed by Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Journal News: June 2021
Review: Rosi Braidotti, ‘Posthuman Knowledge’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Video: Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli on 'Dancing with and within the Digital Domain'
Video: Alison Downham Moore on 'Foucault’s 1960s Lectures on Sexuality'
Review: Lars Spuybroek, ‘Grace and Gravity. Architectures of the Figure’
Reviewed by Vera Bühlmann
Journal News: July 2021
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
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