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.

Vanessa E. Thompson: Commentary on David Goldberg’s Conversation with Achille Mbembe

Robbie Shilliam: Commentary on David Goldberg’s Conversation with Achille Mbembe

Gabriel Apata: Commentary on David Theo Goldberg's Conversation with Achille Mbembe

Rowland Atkinson: Commentary on Piketty’s and Savage’s Conversation

Luke Cooper: Commentary on Thomas Piketty and Mike Savage’s Conversation

Video: Dwight Towers, ‘Anti-reflexivity for Beginners’

Lee Mackinnon: Commentary on Ross Abbinnett’s ‘Trolling the Net’

Ralph Schroeder: Commentary on Volker H. Schmidt’s ‘Breakthrough of Global Modernity’

Yuk Hui: Commentary on Thierry Bardini and Anne Fagot-Largeault’s Conversation

Joanna Latimer: Commentary on Florence Chiew’s ‘Posthuman Ethics’

Nicholas Gane: Commentary on Will Davies’ Response

William Davies: Commentary on Nicholas Gane’s ‘The Emergence of Neoliberalism’

Caroline Knowles: Commentary on Ryan Bishop & John WP Phillips’, ‘The Urban Problematic’

John W.P. Phillips: On how Slavoj Žižek doesn’t know how to read

John W.P. Phillips: On Rancière and Derrida on Plato

John W.P. Phillips: On Mathematical Logic
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