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.
B&S Special Issue: ‘Symmetries of Touch’
Special Issue: Edited by Rebekka Ladewig and Henning Schmidgen
Journal News: June 2020
Latest Special Issues from Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society
Video: Jane Macnaughton on ‘Making Breath Visible’
Video: Andrew Russell on ‘Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World’
Rhythmanalysis: An Interview with Paola Crespi
Interviewed by Sunil Manghani
Video: Paola Crespi on Rhythmanalysis
Interview: Pasi Väliaho on video games and rhythm
Interviewed by James Ash
'The Biology of History': Antibiotics, Resistant Bacteria and the Human Effect. An Interview with Hannah Landecker
Interviewed by Andrea Núñez Casal
Video: Megan Watkins on Habit
‘Tarde as Media Theorist’: An Interview with Tony D. Sampson
Interviewed by Jussi Parikka
Interview with Jenny Slatman and Guy Widdershoven on Hand Transplants
Interviewed by Tomoko Tamari
Interview with Aryn Martin on Microchimerism
Interviewed by Simon Dawes
Body & Society ‘Affect’ Special Issue: Interview with Lisa Blackman, Mike Featherstone and Couze Venn
Relaunch of Body & Society with Special Issue on ‘Affect’
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