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: Jonathan Crary, ‘Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World’
Reviewed by Henry Powell
Video: Jordan Sjol on 'Contingency and Mysticism from Economics to Finance'
Review: Kieran Durkin and Joan Braune (eds.), ‘Erich Fromm’s Critical Theory’
Reviewed by Daniel F. Davis
Review: Atul Kohli, ‘Imperialism and the Developing World’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Video: M. Beatrice Fazi on 'Beyond Human: Deep Learning, Explainability and Representation'
Review: Kevin B. Anderson, Kieran Durkin, and Heather Brown, (eds.) ‘Raya Dunayevskaya's Intersectional Marxism’
Reviewed by Alyssa Adamson
Journal News: January 2022
Review: Zygmunt Bauman, ‘Culture and Art: Selected Writings, Vol. 1’
Reviewed by Elena Álvarez-Álvarez
AI and Society: 'Robotics and Embodiment' (Online Seminar)
Journal News: December 2021
Latest issues from Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society
Video: Caroline Wilson-Barnao & Alex Bevan on 'Women’s Bodies and the Evolution of Anti-Rape Technologies'
Video: Jennifer Mae Hamilton on 'Affect Theory and Breast Cancer Memoirs'
Thanks to Reviewers
TCS E-Special Issue: Pierre Bourdieu
Edited by Derek Robbins
Review: Clare Birchall, ‘Radical Secrecy’
Reviewed by Matthew Potolsky
Review: Bettina Brandt and Britta Hochkirchen, ‘Reinhart Koselleck und das Bild’
Reviewed by Sean Franzel
Video: Charles Reitz on 'Herbert Marcuse Today'
Video: Simon Butler on 'The Philosophy of Bitcoin and The Question of Money'
Artist Spotlight: Joy Gerrard
TCS Special Issue: ‘Post-Neoliberalism?’
Edited by William Davies and Nicholas Gane