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: Paolo Bartoloni and Enea Bianchi on 'Life Deactivated: Philosophies on the End of the World'

Video:Benjamin Nicoll on ‘Latent Freedom in Videogames’

Video: Mikkel Flohr on ‘Political Theology: Origins, Concepts, and Contradictions’

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'
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