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: Howard Feather, ‘Social Theory of Displacement: Adventures in the Everyday’
Reviewed by Paul Clements

Video: Daniel Jaster on ‘Rethinking Critical Sociology, Transcending the Transcendental’

Review: Luca Mavelli, ‘Neoliberal Citizenship: Sacred Markets, Sacrificial Lives’
Reviewed by Dimitra Kotouza

TCS E-Special Issue: Judith Butler
Edited by Elena Loizidou

Journal News: March 2024
Journal News: November 2023

Video: Miranda P. Dotson on ‘Engineering the Skin: Embodied Experiences of Healing from Acne Among YouTube Vloggers’

Review: Natasha Lushetich, Iain Campbell and Dominic Smith (eds.), ‘Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies’
Reviewed by Ole Thijs

Journal News: Annual Review

Video: Konstantinos Pittas on ‘Artistic Activism and Museum Accountability: Staging Antagonism in the Cultural Sphere’

Video: Antti Lindfors on ‘Between Self-Tracking and Alternative Medicine: Biomimetic Imaginary in Contemporary Biohacking’

Thanks to Reviewers

Journal News: November 2023
Journal News: November 2023

Review: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Soraya Boudia and Kyoko Sato (eds.), ‘Living in a Nuclear World. From Fukushima to Hiroshima’
Reviewed by Charlotte Bigg

Review: James Bridle, ‘New Dark Age—Technology and the End of the Future’ - New Edition 2023
Reviewed by Henry Powell

Review: Neal Harris, ‘Critical theory and social pathology. The Frankfurt School beyond recognition’
Reviewed by Luca Richiardi

Review: Giorgio Agamben, ‘When the House Burns Down. From the Dialect of Thought’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata

TCS Special Issue: ‘Against Ontology: Chinese Thought and François Jullien’
Edited by Scott Lash and Shiqiao Li

Video: Thomas Dekeyser on ‘Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism’

Review: Steffen Mau, ‘Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of the Border in the 21st Century’, translated by Nicola Barfoot
Reviewed by Shaun Best

Review: Jean-Francois Lyotard, ‘Readings in Infancy’
Reviewed by Jeremy Bell
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