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.

Video: Natasja Kingod on ‘Noise as Dysappearance: Attuning to a Life with Type 1 Diabetes’

Gabriel O. Apata: On Not Being Achille Mbembe
The question is why did many mistake me for Mbembe? Apart from the fact that we were both black men, African, spectacle-wearing and shaven-headed.

Video: Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire on ‘Risk and the Spectral Politics of Disability’

Video: Giuseppe Longo on ‘Quantifying the World and Its Webs: Mathematical Discrete vs Continua in Knowledge Construction’

Video: Mark Paterson – ‘On Pain as a Distinct Sensation: Mapping Intensities, Affects, and Difference in ‘Interior States’’

Video: David Gruber on ‘There Is No Brain: Rethinking Neuroscience through a Nomadic Ontology’

Video: Illan rua Wall on ‘Policing Atmospheres: Crowds, Protest and ‘Atmotechnics’’

Video: Mark Paterson on ‘Architecture of Sensation: Affect, Motility and the Oculomotor’

Video: Esposito & Stark: ‘What’s Observed in a Rating? Rankings as Orientation in the Face of Uncertainty’

In Memory of Couze Venn
By Mike Featherstone

Review: John Smyth, ‘The Toxic University’
Reviewed by Filip Vostal

Video: Arianne Conty on ‘The Politics of Nature: New Materialist Responses to the Anthropocene’

Review: Susanna Paasonen, ‘Many Splendored Things: Thinking Sex and Play’
Reviewed by João Florêncio

Review: Martijn Konings, ‘Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason’
Reviewed by Samuel Kirwan

Review: Jennifer Robertson, ‘Robo Sapiens Japanicus'
Reviewed by Mona Abaza

Video: Laurel Jean Fredrickson on Robert Filliou and the Eternal Network

Video: Alexandra Deem on the No Dakota Access Pipeline Movement

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
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’
Reviewed by Pete Bearder
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