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: Arthur Bradley, ‘Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy’
Reviewed by K. Daniel Cho
Review: S. E. Wilmer and Audrone Žukauskaitė (eds.) ‘Life In The Posthuman Condition: Critical Responses to the Anthropocene’
Reviewed by Yixuan Li
Review: Yuk Hui, ‘Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking’
Reviewed by Cera Y.J. Tan
Review: Richard Overy, ‘Why War?’
Reviewed by Henry Powell
Review: Anon Collective (eds.), ‘Book of Anonymity’
Reviewed by Gary T. Marx
Review: María Angélica Thumala Olave (ed.), ‘The Cultural Sociology of Reading: The Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World’
Reviewed by Muhammad Khairul, Muhammad Syahid, Fajar Alamin and Akhmad Ridlo
Review: Adriana Zaharijević, ‘Judith Butler and Politics’
Reviewed by Nina Perger
Review: N. Ingram, A. Bathmaker, J. Abrahams, L. Bentley, H. Bradley, T. Hoare, V. Papafilippou and R. Waller, ‘The Degree Generation: The Making of Unequal Graduate Lives’
Reviewed by Sixian Hah
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
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