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
Review: Luca Mavelli, ‘Neoliberal Citizenship: Sacred Markets, Sacrificial Lives’
Reviewed by Dimitra Kotouza
Review: Natasha Lushetich, Iain Campbell and Dominic Smith (eds.), ‘Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies’
Reviewed by Ole Thijs
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
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
Review: Amy Allen and Eduardo Mendieta, ‘The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon’
Reviewed by Rainer Winter
Review: Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams, ‘Hegemony Now’
Reviewed by Claudia Firth
Review: Annemarie Mol, ‘Eating in Theory’
Reviewed by Robert Beauregard
Review: Ekow Eshun, ‘In The Black Fantastic’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Review: Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson, and Jussi Parikka, ‘The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies’
Reviewed by Roger Whitson
Review: Miklós Hadas, ‘Outlines of a Theory of Plural Habitus’
Reviewed by Wahyuning Afifah, Mamnunah and Muhammad Maftukhan
Review: Walter Rodney, ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Review: Dario Gentili, ‘The Age of Precarity’
Reviewed by Arthur Bradley
Review: David Roberts, ‘History of the Present’
Reviewed by Robert Savage
Review: Daniel Agbiboa, ‘Mobility, Mobilisation and Counter/Insurgency’ and ‘They Eat Our Sweat’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Review: Dominik Bartmanski, ‘Matters of Revolution’
Reviewed by Eduardo de la Fuente