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: Michel Foucault, ‘Confessions of the Flesh’
Reviewed by Stuart Elden
Review: Jo Littler, ‘Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power, and Myths of Mobility’
Reviewed by Diane Reay
Review: Paolo Virno, ‘When the Word becomes Flesh. Language and Human Nature’
Reviewed by Arianna Bove
Review: Heinrich Popitz, ‘Phenomena of Power: Authority, Domination, and Violence’
Reviewed by Austin Harrington
Review: Zygmunt Bauman, ‘Retrotopia’
Reviewed by Zeger Polhuijs
Review: Lars Spuybroek, ‘The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design’
Reviewed by Carl Knappett
Review: Stuart Hall, ‘Familiar Stranger’ and ‘Selected Political Writings’
Reviewed by Tony Jefferson
Review: Claudio Celis Bueno, ‘The Attention Economy: Labour, Time and Power in Cognitive Capitalism’
Reviewed by Ben Turner
Review: Austin Harrington, ‘German Cosmopolitan Thought and the Idea of the West: Voices from Weimar’
Reviewed by Thomas Kemple
Review: Penelope Deutscher and Cristina Lafont, ‘Critical Theory in Critical Times: Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order’
Reviewed by Jerome Braun
Review: Sean Cubitt, ‘Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies’
Reviewed by Sandra Robinson
Review: Achille Mbembe, ‘Critique of Black Reason’
Reviewed by Gabriel O Apata
Review: Jussi Parikka, ‘Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses’
Reviewed by Roger Whitson
Review: Srećko Horvat, ‘The Radicality of Love’
Reviewed by Julia Carter
Review: Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues, ‘Foucault in Brazil’
Reviewed by Marcelo Hoffman
Review: Jean-Daniel Rainhorn and Samira El Boudamoussi, ‘New Cannibal Markets’
Reviewed by Anouck Alary
Review: Isabelle Stengers, ‘In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism’
Reviewed by Nicholas Beuret
Review: Victoria Pitts-Taylor, ‘The Brain’s Body: Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics’
Reviewed by Jaime D. Wright
Review: Dawn Nafus, ‘Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life’
Reviewed by Phoebe Moore
Review: Wilmer & Žukauskaitė, ‘Resisting Biopolitics’
Reviewed by Jacob Chamberlain
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