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.
In Conversation: Daniel Ross and Ryan Bishop on Bernard Stiegler’s Internation
Body & Society 25th Anniversary: An Interview with Bryan S Turner
Interviewed by Tomoko Tamari
In Conversation: Achille Mbembe and David Theo Goldberg on ‘Critique of Black Reason’
To be Human: An Interview with Daniel Chernilo
Interviewed by David Beer
Redoing the Demos? An Interview with Wendy Brown
Interviewed by Samuel Burgum, Sebastian Raza, and Jorge Vasquez
‘The Incorporeal’: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz
Interviewed by Vikki Bell
Interview with Julia O’Connell Davidson on ‘Modern Slavery’
Interviewed by Angelo Martins Junior
Questioning ‘Racial Prescriptions’: An Interview with Jonathan Xavier Inda
Interviewed by Sibille Merz
In Conversation: Thomas Pinketty and Mike Savage
‘Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain’: An Interview with Dr. Lisa McKenzie
Interviewed by Vicki Dabrowski
‘Exercises in the History of Ideas’: An Interview with Stuart Elden
Interviewed by Dale Leorke and Suneel Jethani
Rhythmanalysis: An Interview with Paola Crespi
Interviewed by Sunil Manghani
Zones of Indeterminacy: An interview with Peng Yu
Interviewed by Sunil Manghani and Cheng-Chu Weng
Interview: Pasi Väliaho on video games and rhythm
Interviewed by James Ash
'The Biology of History': Antibiotics, Resistant Bacteria and the Human Effect. An Interview with Hannah Landecker
Interviewed by Andrea Núñez Casal
The Aesthetics of Algorithms: An Interview with Carolyn L. Kane
Interviewed by David Beer
The future of affect theory: An interview with Margaret Wetherell
Interviewed by David Beer
The Entanglements of Interdisciplinarity: An Interview with Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard
Interviewed by David Beer
Samuel Burgum and A.N.Onymous on Rancière and Occupy
The Biopolitics of Biometrics: An Interview with Btihaj Ajana
Interviewed by David Beer
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
Judith Butler, edited by Elena Loizidou
Pierre Bourdieu, edited by Derek Robbins
Ulrich Beck, edited by Gabe Mythen
Zygmunt Bauman, edited by Thomas Campbell, Mark Davis, Austin Harrington & Jack Palmer
John Urry, edited by Mimi Sheller
Complexity, edited by Oliver Human
TCS Book Series
'Killer Cities', Nigel Thrift
'From Being to Living' (De l'Être au Vivre), François Jullien
'After Capital', Couze Venn
'Sociology of the Sacred', Philip A Mellor, Chris Shilling
'Understanding the Chinese City', Li Shiqiao
'The Consumer Society', Jean Baudrillard
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