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: Louise Amoore, ‘Cloud Ethics’
Reviewed by Suryansu Guha

Video: Mikkel Krause Frantzen and Jens Bjering on ‘Ecology, Capitalism and Waste’

Video: Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli on ‘Whose Dance Is It Anyway?: Property, Copyright and the Commons’

Video: Rakesh Sengupta on ‘The Absent Archive of Screenwriting History and the Obsolete Munshi’

Review: Alain Badiou, ‘The Pornographic Age’
Reviewed by Ekin Erkan

TCS Special Issue: Neutral Life / Late Barthes
Edited by Sunil Manghani

Video: Maurizio Meloni on ‘Porous Bodies: Environmental Biopower and the Politics of Life in Ancient Rome’

Video: Rafaela Granja on 'The (De)materialization of Criminal Bodies in Forensic DNA Phenotyping'

Video: Xuenan Cao on ‘Bullet Screens (Danmu)’

Journal News: June 2020
Latest Special Issues from Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society

Review: Craig Lundy, ‘Deleuze’s Bergsonism’
Reviewed by Alex Gomez-Marin

Video: Jane Macnaughton on ‘Making Breath Visible’

Video: Paolo Totaro on ‘Biological Recursion and Digital Systems’

Video: Blake Allen on ‘Merleau-Ponty: Beauty, Phenomenology, and the ‘Theological Turn”

Video: Andrew Russell on ‘Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World’

TCS Book Series: François Jullien’s ‘From Being to Living’
A compelling summation of Jullien’s thinking on the comparison and divergences between Western and Chinese thought.

Video: Kristin Plys on ‘The Poetry of Resistance’

Review: Plessner, ‘Political Anthropology’ and ‘Levels of Organic Life and the Human’ & Fischer, ‘Exzentrische Postionalität’
Reviewed by Austin Harrington

Review: Francesca Ferrando, ‘Philosophical Posthumanism’
Reviewed by Alexander Thomas

Review: Sandro Chignola, ‘Foucault’s Politics of Philosophy. Power, Law and Subjectivity’
Reviewed by Irene Dal Poz
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