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
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