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.

Review: Zygmunt Bauman, ‘Culture and Art: Selected Writings, Vol. 1’
Reviewed by Elena Álvarez-Álvarez

Review: Rita Felski, ‘Hooked. Art and Attachment’
Reviewed by María Angélica Thumala Olave

Video: Muneeb Hafiz on ‘Smashing the Imperial Frame: Race, Culture, (De)Coloniality’

Review: David M. Berry and Michael Dieter, ‘Postdigital Aesthetics’
Reviewed by M. Beatrice Fazi

Patricia Mooney Nickel on Culture, Politics and Governing

‘Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain’: An Interview with Dr. Lisa McKenzie
Interviewed by Vicki Dabrowski

Sunil Manghani on Transmediale 2014

Interview with Ben Carrington on ‘Race, Sport and Politics’
Interviewed by Simon Dawes
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