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: Nicholas Fazio on ‘Rethinking Human-Smartphone Interaction with Deleuze, Guattari, and Polanyi’

Review: Illan Rua Wall, ‘Law and Disorder: Sovereignty, Protest, Atmosphere’
Reviewed by Costas Douzinas

Review: Daniel Herwitz, ‘The Political Power of Visual Art: Liberty, Solidarity, and Rights’
Reviewed by Eva Díaz

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'
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