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: Alexej Ulbricht, ‘Multicultural Immunisation: Liberalism and Esposito’
Reviewed by Ros Williams
Review: Pierre Bourdieu, ‘On the State: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992’
Reviewed by Rohit Chopra
Review: Richard Grusin, ‘The Nonhuman Turn’
Reviewed by Astrida Neimanis
Review: Vincanne Adams, ‘Metrics. What Counts in Global Health’
Reviewed by Oscar Javier Maldonado Castañeda
Review: Jamie Lorimer, ‘Wildlife in the Anthropocene’
Reviewed by Gregory Hollin and Eva Giraud
Review: David M. Berry and Michael Dieter, ‘Postdigital Aesthetics’
Reviewed by M. Beatrice Fazi
Review: Wendy Brown, ‘Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution’
Reviewed by Nicholas Gane
Review: Barbara Cassin et. al., ‘Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon’
Reviewed by Lucie Mercier
Review: Pasi Väliaho, Biopolitical Screens: Image, Power, and the Neoliberal Brain
Reviewed by Jakob Nilsson
Review: Sybille Krämer, ‘Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy’
Reviewed by David W. Hill
Review: Maurizio Lazzarato, ‘Governing by Debt’
Reviewed by Moritz Altenried
Review: Peter Sloterdijk, ‘Der Ästhetische Imperativ: Schriften zur Kunst’
Reviewed by Sascha Rashof
Review: Lisa Lowe, ‘The Intimacies of Four Continents’
Reviewed by John Holmwood
Review: Michel Foucault, ‘On the Government of the Living’
Reviewed by Sophie Fuggle
Review: Seyed Javad Miri, ‘Islamism and Post-Islamism: Reflections upon Allama Jafari’s Political Thought’
Reviewed by Sara Tafakori
Review: Rob Kitchin, ‘The Data Revolution’
Reviewed by David Moats
Review: Félix Guattari, ‘Machinic Eros: Writings on Japan’
Reviewed by Dario Lolli
Review: Eleni Ikoniadou, ‘The Rhythmic Event’
Reviewed by Paola Crespi
Review: Jussi Parikka, ‘A Geology of Media’
Reviewed by Sean Cubitt
Review: Keim et. al., ‘Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences’
Reviewed by Felipe Lagos
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
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
'Killer Cities', Nigel Thrift
'From Being to Living' (De l'Être au Vivre), François Jullien
'After Capital', Couze Venn
'Sociology of the Sacred', Philip A Mellor, Chris Shilling
'Understanding the Chinese City', Li Shiqiao
'The Consumer Society', Jean Baudrillard
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