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.
Rita Felski: My Sociology Envy
Gabriel O. Apata: On Not Being Achille Mbembe
The question is why did many mistake me for Mbembe? Apart from the fact that we were both black men, African, spectacle-wearing and shaven-headed.
Think-Piece: Commemoration and Spectacle in the Centenary of Women’s Suffrage
Laura E. Nym Mayhall reflects on the suffrage movement. Are we all militants now?
Think-Piece: The Neglected Intellectual Legacy of '1968'
Couze Venn reflects on the 50th anniversary of May '68
Against “Aging”: How to Talk about Growing Older
By Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Video Special Section: Rebecca Coleman and Liz Oakley-Brown on ‘Visualizing Surfaces, Surfacing Vision’
Elinor Carmi: Cookies – More than Meets the Eye
Earwitnesses of a Coup Night: The Many Media Infrastructures of Social Action
By Jussi Parikka
Daniel Smith on Broadchurch as a Country Noir
William ‘Lez’ Henry on Education and Schooling
Sunil Manghani on the 'Role' of Umberto Eco
Africa in Oceania: Thinking Besides the Subaltern
By Robbie Shilliam
Rob Stones on News, Current Affairs, Audiences and Social Theorists
Patricia Mooney Nickel on Culture, Politics and Governing
Les Back: How Blue Can You Get? B.B. King, Planetary Humanism and the Blues Behind Bars (Part Two)
Les Back: How Blue Can You Get? B.B. King, Planetary Humanism and the Blues Behind Bars (Part One)
Yiğit Soncul on Masks and Emergency in Turkey
Terry Flew on Foucault, Weber and Neoliberal Governmentality
Volker H. Schmidt on Global Modernity
Ross Abbinnett on Trolling the Net: The Phenomenology of Love and Hate
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