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.
Video: Qian Wang on ‘Bodily Movements in Video Game Practice: A Phenomenological Analysis of Digital Virtuality’
Video: Qiaoyu Cai on ‘The Cultural Politics of Artificial Intelligence in China'
Video: Ilan Kapoor on 'Intersectionality, Decoloniality, Indigenous Localism: A Critique’
Video: Claudia Firth on 'Neoliberalism’s Persistence and the Struggle for What Comes After'
Video: Luca Serafini on ‘From Institutions to the Platform Society: An Interdisciplinary Reading of Recent Works by Roberto Esposito’
Video: Alex Alvarez Taylor on ‘Interview with Werner Bonefeld: Open Marxism and the Critique of Society’
Video: Daniel Jaster on ‘Rethinking Critical Sociology, Transcending the Transcendental’
Video: Miranda P. Dotson on ‘Engineering the Skin: Embodied Experiences of Healing from Acne Among YouTube Vloggers’
Video: Konstantinos Pittas on ‘Artistic Activism and Museum Accountability: Staging Antagonism in the Cultural Sphere’
Video: Antti Lindfors on ‘Between Self-Tracking and Alternative Medicine: Biomimetic Imaginary in Contemporary Biohacking’
Video: Thomas Dekeyser on ‘Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism’
Video: Christopher Haworth on 'Post Punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age'
Video: Timothy Barker on ‘Michel Serres and the Philosophy of Technology’
Video: John Lechte on 'Justice, Injustice and the Work of Julia Kristeva'
Video: Irene Groenevelt on 'Doing Bodies in YouTube Videos about Contested Illness'
Video: Lee Mackinnon on 'Love, Games and Gamification'
Video: Nicholas Gane on 'Neoliberalism and the Defence of the Corporation'
Video: Francesco Sticchi on 'The Precarious Multitude of Bacurau'
Video: Milan Stürmer and Daniel Bella on 'Inheriting Cosmopolitics'
Video: Daniel Davison-Vecchione on 'Ursula Le Guin’s Speculative Anthropology'
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