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: David Roberts, ‘History of the Present’
Reviewed by Robert Savage

Video: Martin Albrow on 'Max Weber: From Modernity to Globality'

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

Review: Zygmunt Bauman, ‘Retrotopia’
Reviewed by Zeger Polhuijs

Interview with Julia O’Connell Davidson on ‘Modern Slavery’
Interviewed by Angelo Martins Junior

Ralph Schroeder: Commentary on Volker H. Schmidt’s ‘Breakthrough of Global Modernity’

Volker H. Schmidt on Global Modernity

Beck in Brazil by Rodrigo Constante Martins
Video: Paolo Totaro on Algorithms

Interview with Gurminder Bhambra on Colonialism, Empire and Slavery
Interviewed by Simon Dawes

Interview with Zygmunt Bauman
Interviewed by Simon Dawes

Interview with Michel Maffesoli on Postmodernity
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