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: Howard Feather, ‘Social Theory of Displacement: Adventures in the Everyday’
Reviewed by Paul Clements
Video: Daniel Jaster on ‘Rethinking Critical Sociology, Transcending the Transcendental’
Review: Luca Mavelli, ‘Neoliberal Citizenship: Sacred Markets, Sacrificial Lives’
Reviewed by Dimitra Kotouza
TCS E-Special Issue: Judith Butler
Edited by Elena Loizidou
Journal News: March 2024
Journal News: November 2023
Video: Miranda P. Dotson on ‘Engineering the Skin: Embodied Experiences of Healing from Acne Among YouTube Vloggers’
Review: Natasha Lushetich, Iain Campbell and Dominic Smith (eds.), ‘Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies’
Reviewed by Ole Thijs
Journal News: Annual Review
Video: Konstantinos Pittas on ‘Artistic Activism and Museum Accountability: Staging Antagonism in the Cultural Sphere’
Video: Antti Lindfors on ‘Between Self-Tracking and Alternative Medicine: Biomimetic Imaginary in Contemporary Biohacking’
Thanks to Reviewers
Journal News: November 2023
Journal News: November 2023
Review: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Soraya Boudia and Kyoko Sato (eds.), ‘Living in a Nuclear World. From Fukushima to Hiroshima’
Reviewed by Charlotte Bigg
Review: James Bridle, ‘New Dark Age—Technology and the End of the Future’ - New Edition 2023
Reviewed by Henry Powell
Review: Neal Harris, ‘Critical theory and social pathology. The Frankfurt School beyond recognition’
Reviewed by Luca Richiardi
Review: Giorgio Agamben, ‘When the House Burns Down. From the Dialect of Thought’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
TCS Special Issue: ‘Against Ontology: Chinese Thought and François Jullien’
Edited by Scott Lash and Shiqiao Li
Video: Thomas Dekeyser on ‘Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism’
Review: Steffen Mau, ‘Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of the Border in the 21st Century’, translated by Nicola Barfoot
Reviewed by Shaun Best
Review: Jean-Francois Lyotard, ‘Readings in Infancy’
Reviewed by Jeremy Bell