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.

Les Back on ‘Smokey’ Robinson and Love

Kittler on the NSA
Introduction to Kittler’s “No Such Agency”, by Paul Feigelfeld and Jussi Parikka

Les Back on Otis Redding

Les Back on Junior Murvin

Roy Boyne on Peter Sloterdijk and Topology at Tate Modern
Mona Abaza on Egypt, Public Space and Media

Armando Salvatore on Egypt, Facebook and the Public Sphere

Couze Venn on the link between the bonus system and the financial crisis

Martin McQuillan on Higher Education policy in the UK

Amr Sabet on the Egyptian Condition

Elena Loizidou introduces our Judith Butler archive

Abdelmajid Hannoum on the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt

John W.P. Phillips on Fractals

Couze Venn on Benoit Mandelbrot, fractals and the realignment of the human sciences

Peter Burke on writing The Social History of Knowledge

Peter Burke on the Social History of Knowledge, 1750-2000

Mark Davis on Zygmunt Bauman

Nigel Clark: Beyond Justice? The Radical Asymmetries of Climate Change
Full text of lecture presented at King’s College London

Éric Fassin: Why the Roma?

City-as-Target: Tania Roy on Terrorism
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