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: Achille Mbembe, 'Notes on Brutalism'

Video: Stuart Elden on 'Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker'

Video: Tobias Skiveren on ‘Fictionality in New Materialism’

Video: Elisabetta Basso on ‘Foucault’s Critique of the Human Sciences in the 1950s’

Body & Society 25th Anniversary: An Interview with Bryan S Turner
Interviewed by Tomoko Tamari

Review: Amit Pinchevski, ‘Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma’
Reviewed by Norma Musih

Max Weber in Theory, Culture & Society. On the 100th Anniversary of His Death
By Matthias Wieser

Video: Tribute to Bernard Stiegler

Video: Martin Albrow on 'Max Weber: From Modernity to Globality'

Roy Boyne 1947-2020
By Scott Lash

Video: Maria Tamboukou on ‘The Non-Nomadic Subject of Feminism’

Review: Aaron Bastani, ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto’
Reviewed by Mark Featherstone

Journal News: October 2020

Review: Rebecca Coleman, ‘Glitterworlds. The Future Politics of a Ubiquitous Thing’
Reviewed by Signe Ravn

Video: Thomas Kemple on ‘A Century after Weber and Simmel’

Review: Donatella Di Cesare, ‘Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration’
Reviewed by Emmanuel Jouai

Video: Manfred Steger on ‘Disjunctive Globalization in the Era of the Great Unsettling’

Video: Gabriel O. Apata on 'The Suffocating Nature of Racism'

Technics of Memory and Life: Bernard Stiegler in Memoriam
By Scott Lash

Out now: September 2020 Issue
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