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
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