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'

Review: Arthur Bradley, ‘Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy’
Reviewed by K. Daniel Cho

Video:Benjamin Nicoll on ‘Latent Freedom in Videogames’

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

Review: Yuk Hui, ‘Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking’
Reviewed by Cera Y.J. Tan

Journal News: March 2025
Journal News: March 2025

Video: Qiaoyu Cai on ‘The Cultural Politics of Artificial Intelligence in China'

Review: Richard Overy, ‘Why War?’
Reviewed by Henry Powell

Journal News: Annual Review

Video: Ilan Kapoor on 'Intersectionality, Decoloniality, Indigenous Localism: A Critique’

Thanks to Reviewers

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’

Review: María Angélica Thumala Olave (ed.), ‘The Cultural Sociology of Reading: The Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World’
Reviewed by Muhammad Khairul, Muhammad Syahid, Fajar Alamin and Akhmad Ridlo

Video: Alex Alvarez Taylor on ‘Interview with Werner Bonefeld: Open Marxism and the Critique of Society’

Review: Adriana Zaharijević, ‘Judith Butler and Politics’
Reviewed by Nina Perger

Review: N. Ingram, A. Bathmaker, J. Abrahams, L. Bentley, H. Bradley, T. Hoare, V. Papafilippou and R. Waller, ‘The Degree Generation: The Making of Unequal Graduate Lives’
Reviewed by Sixian Hah

Review: Howard Feather, ‘Social Theory of Displacement: Adventures in the Everyday’
Reviewed by Paul Clements

Review: Luca Mavelli, ‘Neoliberal Citizenship: Sacred Markets, Sacrificial Lives’
Reviewed by Dimitra Kotouza

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