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: Penelope Deutscher and Cristina Lafont, ‘Critical Theory in Critical Times: Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order’
Reviewed by Jerome Braun
Review: Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues, ‘Foucault in Brazil’
Reviewed by Marcelo Hoffman
Video: Muhammad Ali Nasir on Biopolitics, Thanatopolitics and the Right to Life
Review: Wendy Brown, ‘Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution’
Reviewed by Nicholas Gane
Video: David Newheiser on Foucault, Gary Becker and the Critique of Neoliberalism
Review: Michel Foucault, ‘On the Government of the Living’
Reviewed by Sophie Fuggle
Patricia Mooney Nickel on Culture, Politics and Governing
‘Exercises in the History of Ideas’: An Interview with Stuart Elden
Interviewed by Dale Leorke and Suneel Jethani
Terry Flew on Foucault, Weber and Neoliberal Governmentality
Johanna Oksala on Foucault, Marx and Neoliberal Subjects
Review: Pierre Dardot & Christian Laval, ‘The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society’
Reviewed by Emanuele Leonardi
Review: Elettra Stimilli, ‘Il debito del vivente’
Reviewed by Matteo Pasquinelli
Video: Kate Maddalena and Jeremy Packer on the Digital Body
Nicholas Gane: Commentary on Will Davies’ Response
The Biopolitics of Biometrics: An Interview with Btihaj Ajana
Interviewed by David Beer
William Davies: Commentary on Nicholas Gane’s ‘The Emergence of Neoliberalism’
In Conversation: William Davies and Nicholas Gane on Neoliberalism and the Ethos of Competition
Video: Jussi Parikka on Cultural Techniques
Video: Nicholas Gane on Foucault's Lectures on Neoliberalism
Interview with Stephen J. Collier on Foucault, Assemblages and Topology
Interviewed by Simon Dawes
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