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: Indrek Ibrus and Maarja Ojamaa on ‘The Creativity of Digital (Audiovisual) Archives’
Video: Mats Nilsson & Mekonnen Tesfahuney on ‘What Space for Female Subjectivity in the Post-Secular?’
Video: Nicholas Gane on ‘Competition: A Critical History of a Concept’
Video: Olga Cielemęcka and Christine Daigle on ‘Posthuman Sustainability: An Ethos for our Anthropocenic Future’
Video: Emily Rosamond on ‘From Reputation Capital to Reputation Warfare’
Video: Cristián Simonetti on ‘The Petrified Anthropocene’
Video: Pia Heike Johansen on ‘Listening to Silence: Bringing Forward the Background Noise of Being’
Video: Adam Arvidsson on ‘Capitalism and the Commons’
Video: Sang-Jin Han on ‘Dialogue with John Dunn on Korean Denuclearization’
Video: Rosalind Cooper on ‘Pastoral Power and Algorithmic Governmentality’
Video: Madeleine Pape on ‘Expertise and Non-binary Bodies: Sex, Gender and the Case of Dutee Chand’
Video: ‘Truth, Fiction, Illusion: Worlds & Experience' Conference 2019
Video: Natasja Kingod on ‘Noise as Dysappearance: Attuning to a Life with Type 1 Diabetes’
Video: Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire on ‘Risk and the Spectral Politics of Disability’
Video: Giuseppe Longo on ‘Quantifying the World and Its Webs: Mathematical Discrete vs Continua in Knowledge Construction’
Video: Mark Paterson – ‘On Pain as a Distinct Sensation: Mapping Intensities, Affects, and Difference in ‘Interior States’’
Video: David Gruber on ‘There Is No Brain: Rethinking Neuroscience through a Nomadic Ontology’
Video: Illan rua Wall on ‘Policing Atmospheres: Crowds, Protest and ‘Atmotechnics’’
Video: Mark Paterson on ‘Architecture of Sensation: Affect, Motility and the Oculomotor’
Video: Esposito & Stark: ‘What’s Observed in a Rating? Rankings as Orientation in the Face of Uncertainty’
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