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: Elizabeth Goodstein, ‘Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1598959518511-V0TTYM2NS4AEYER5HWWL/elizabeth+goodstein+georg+simmel+and+the+disciplinary+imaginary+.jpg)
Review: Elizabeth Goodstein, ‘Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary’
Reviewed by Mark Featherstone
![Think-Piece: Commemoration and Spectacle in the Centenary of Women’s Suffrage](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1600096742022-QAN2HZWS60OSZNVMLSUC/womens-suffrage-wpsu.jpg)
Think-Piece: Commemoration and Spectacle in the Centenary of Women’s Suffrage
Laura E. Nym Mayhall reflects on the suffrage movement. Are we all militants now?
![Review: Samuel Burgum, ‘Occupying London: Post Crash Resistance and the Limits of Possibility’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1598960486928-IQZI5ZYNX0S3SINDWFWT/samuel+burgum+occupying+london.jpg)
Review: Samuel Burgum, ‘Occupying London: Post Crash Resistance and the Limits of Possibility’
Reviewed by Pete Bearder
![Review: Kehinde Andrews, ‘Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1598961299254-WNJAAR0CVC6N5O1811Y9/kehinde+andrews+back+to+black+-+retelling+black+radicalism+for+the+21st+century.jpg)
Review: Kehinde Andrews, ‘Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
![Think-Piece: The Neglected Intellectual Legacy of '1968'](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1599780865983-ES02F4OA3RI7CDDYQAMH/may-1968.jpg)
Think-Piece: The Neglected Intellectual Legacy of '1968'
Couze Venn reflects on the 50th anniversary of May '68
![Video: Seán Williams on ‘Cancer Coiffures’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1598216887267-4HIU9TBFAM4H18U7XOM1/sean-williams-cancer-coiffures.jpg)
Video: Seán Williams on ‘Cancer Coiffures’
![Vanessa E. Thompson: Commentary on David Goldberg’s Conversation with Achille Mbembe](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1598889675972-E2HXPB4B78M02TMA0NGY/vanessa-e-thompson-tcs.jpg)
Vanessa E. Thompson: Commentary on David Goldberg’s Conversation with Achille Mbembe
![Review: Ali Rattansi, ‘Bauman and Contemporary Sociology’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1598961992160-CL8922TBZICNPFK63W7F/ali+rattansi+-+bauman+and+contemporary+sociology.jpg)
Review: Ali Rattansi, ‘Bauman and Contemporary Sociology’
Reviewed by Katy Wright
![Robbie Shilliam: Commentary on David Goldberg’s Conversation with Achille Mbembe](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1600169290847-QWD74KQDWULZ2ENRUV7C/robbie-shilliam.jpg)
Robbie Shilliam: Commentary on David Goldberg’s Conversation with Achille Mbembe
![Gabriel Apata: Commentary on David Theo Goldberg's Conversation with Achille Mbembe](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1600340370026-Q46HEA4BEV3RKEEM69LC/gabriel-apata.jpeg)
Gabriel Apata: Commentary on David Theo Goldberg's Conversation with Achille Mbembe
![In Conversation: Achille Mbembe and David Theo Goldberg on ‘Critique of Black Reason’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1598814878729-JBM34JQ22NCBWFZ21DUU/critique-black-reason-achille-mbembe-tcs.jpg)
In Conversation: Achille Mbembe and David Theo Goldberg on ‘Critique of Black Reason’
![Review: Vicki Kirby, ‘What if Culture Was Nature All Along?’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1598964299917-CM9RUD0ZZVKU71XD85ZT/vicky+kirby+-+what+if+culture+was+nature+all+along.jpg)
Review: Vicki Kirby, ‘What if Culture Was Nature All Along?’
Reviewed by Nick Mansfield
![Review of Matthew Watson, ‘The Market’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1599038402301-LPXA7P2GUQ4951O04FUD/matthew+watson+-+the+market.jpg)
Review of Matthew Watson, ‘The Market’
Reviewed by William Davies
![Review: Laurence Roulleau Berger, ‘Post-Western Revolution in Sociology’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1599039671411-TNEFMO48EU3NTOXL3VIV/Laurence+Roulleau+Berger+-+Post-Western+Revolution+in+Sociology.jpg)
Review: Laurence Roulleau Berger, ‘Post-Western Revolution in Sociology’
Reviewed by Aurélien Boucher
![Review: Andrew Feenberg, ‘Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1599041085651-J9JJZ05SK83W5N0HV6GL/andrew+feenberg+-+technosystem.jpg)
Review: Andrew Feenberg, ‘Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason’
Reviewed by Alexander Thomas
![Review: Paul Stenner, ‘Liminality and Experience’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1599041626928-HFLCBU9LSYZL3XTHB1KH/paul+stenner+-+liminality+and+experience.jpg)
Review: Paul Stenner, ‘Liminality and Experience’
Reviewed by Robbie Duschinsky and Samantha Reisz
![Review: John Urry, ‘What is the Future?’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1599042202752-IX8K1KDSV4TZH0NG09XL/john+urry+-+what+is+the+future.jpg)
Review: John Urry, ‘What is the Future?’
Reviewed by David Tyfield
![Review: Aihwa Ong, ‘Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1599042783241-M71U6XZTG59HJVZU43BH/Aihwa+Ong+-+Fungible+Life.jpg)
Review: Aihwa Ong, ‘Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life’
Reviewed by Ayo Wahlberg
![Video: William Pawlett on Bataille and Baudrillard](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1598214042392-NWAMQCBJ9SLNA3RY8ZP5/william-pawlett-tcs.jpg)
Video: William Pawlett on Bataille and Baudrillard
![Review: across & beyond – A transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts, and Institutions](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1599043419990-QE4MXRFPI4NL9947NXOU/bishop%2C+gansing%2C+parikka%2C+wilk+-+across+%26+beyond.jpg)
Review: across & beyond – A transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts, and Institutions
Reviewed by Lai-Tze Fan
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