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: Milan Stürmer and Daniel Bella on 'Inheriting Cosmopolitics'
Journal News: May 2022
Video: Daniel Davison-Vecchione on 'Ursula Le Guin’s Speculative Anthropology'
TCS Special Issue: ‘Solid Fluids’
Special Issue: Edited by Tim Ingold and Cristián Simonetti
Review: Bola Dauda and Toyin Falola, ‘Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Review: Daniela Agostinho et. al., ‘(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art’
Reviewed by Lila Lee-Morrison
Video: Arianne Conty on ‘Animism in the Anthropocene’
Video: King-Ho Leung on 'Intentionality and Phenomenality'
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)
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