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.
Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’
TCS E-Special Issue: Painting / Knowledge
Edited by Sunil Manghani
Review: Mehdi Parsa, ‘Machinic Ontology’
Reviewed by Paul Haynes
Journal News: September 2025
Journal News: July 2025
Video: Biao Xiang on 'Channels and Logistical Power: Making a ‘Perfect Market’ under Authoritarian Rule in China'
Journal News: July 2025
Journal News: July 2025
Video: Paolo Bartoloni and Enea Bianchi on 'Life Deactivated: Philosophies on the End of the World'
Review: Arthur Bradley, ‘Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy’
Reviewed by K. Daniel Cho
Video:Benjamin Nicoll on ‘Latent Freedom in Videogames’
Review: S. E. Wilmer and Audrone Žukauskaitė (eds.) ‘Life In The Posthuman Condition: Critical Responses to the Anthropocene’
Reviewed by Yixuan Li
Video: Mikkel Flohr on ‘Political Theology: Origins, Concepts, and Contradictions’
Review: Yuk Hui, ‘Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking’
Reviewed by Cera Y.J. Tan
Journal News: March 2025
Journal News: March 2025
Video: Qian Wang on ‘Bodily Movements in Video Game Practice: A Phenomenological Analysis of Digital Virtuality’
Video: Qiaoyu Cai on ‘The Cultural Politics of Artificial Intelligence in China'
Review: Richard Overy, ‘Why War?’
Reviewed by Henry Powell
Journal News: Annual Review
Video: Ilan Kapoor on 'Intersectionality, Decoloniality, Indigenous Localism: A Critique’
Thanks to Reviewers
Video: Claudia Firth on 'Neoliberalism’s Persistence and the Struggle for What Comes After'
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