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.

Journal News: May 2021

Video: Daniel Smith on 'The Joke-Secret and an Ethics of Modern Individuality'

Video: Roger Burrows on 'Software, Sovereignty and the Post-Neoliberal Politics of Exit'

Journal News: March 2021

In Conversation: Daniel Ross and Ryan Bishop on Bernard Stiegler’s Internation

TCS Special Issue: ‘Problematizing the Problematic’
Edited by Martin Savransky

Video: Étienne Balibar, ‘Critical Reflections on the New Definition of the Human Species’

Video: Deborah Cowen, 'Crisis in Motion’

Video: Prasenjit Duara on 'Oceans as the Paradigm of History'

Video: Troels Krarup on 'Archaeological Methodology: Foucault and the History of Systems of Thought’

TCS Book Series: Nigel Thrift’s ‘Killer Cities’
An ‘epic compendium on the ravages of planetary urbanism from one of geography’s most generative thinkers’

Video: Daniele Lorenzini on 'Philosophical Discourse and Ascetic Practice'

Video: Andrea Di Gesu on 'Parrhesia, Community, and Democracy'

Journal News: January 2021

Review: Gaurav J. Pathania, ‘The University as a Site of Resistance’
Reviewed by Ruhail Andrabi

Video: Discussion of Michel Foucault’s ‘The Punitive Society’
Hosted by Columbia University and the University of Warwick

Video: Henrik Enroth on ‘Declarations of Dependence’

Thanks to Reviewers

Journal News: December 2020
Latest issues from Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society

Video: Gitte du Plessis on ‘Arctic Biosemiotics and the Violence of Climate Change’
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