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’

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TCS E-Special Issue: Judith Butler
Edited by Elena Loizidou

Journal News: March 2024
Journal News: November 2023

Video: Miranda P. Dotson on ‘Engineering the Skin: Embodied Experiences of Healing from Acne Among YouTube Vloggers’

Video: Antti Lindfors on ‘Between Self-Tracking and Alternative Medicine: Biomimetic Imaginary in Contemporary Biohacking’

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Journal News: November 2023
Journal News: November 2023

Journal News: Annual Review
Latest issues from Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society

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Video: Irene Groenevelt on 'Doing Bodies in YouTube Videos about Contested Illness'

Journal News: September 2022

Journal News: December 2021
Latest issues from Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society

Video: Caroline Wilson-Barnao & Alex Bevan on 'Women’s Bodies and the Evolution of Anti-Rape Technologies'

Video: Jennifer Mae Hamilton on 'Affect Theory and Breast Cancer Memoirs'

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TCS E-Special Issue: Pierre Bourdieu
Edited by Derek Robbins

Journal News: September 2021
Latest issues from Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society

Video: Mark Paterson on ‘Disability, Sensory Substitution and the Origins of the Neuroplastic Subject’

Journal News: June 2021
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