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.
Les Back on Otis Redding
Video: Megan Watkins on Habit
Caroline Knowles: Commentary on Ryan Bishop & John WP Phillips’, ‘The Urban Problematic’
Video: Phillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggart 'Off the Grid in Ontario'
Review: Neiva Vieira de Cunha & Gabriel de Santis Feltran, ‘Sobre Periferias: novos conflitos no Brasil contemporâneo’
Reviewed by Angelo Martins Junior
Modesty is a Virtue: A Tribute to Paul Cilliers (1956-2011)
By Oliver Human
Les Back on Junior Murvin
In Conversation: William Davies and Nicholas Gane on Neoliberalism and the Ethos of Competition
Exhibition: Anti-Academy
Video: Alf Hornborg on Technology as Fetish
Video: Thomas Kemple on Simmel’s ‘Sociological Metaphysics’
Video: Paolo Totaro on Algorithms
Video: Sean Cubitt on Electric Light and Electricity
Video: Tim Simpson on Glass Architecture in Macau
Video: Lucian Chaffey on Cybernetic Modification in 'Farscape'
Interview with James Ash on Videogames, Attention and Affect
Interviewed by Souvik Mukherjee
Interview with Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim on ‘Individualization’
Interviewed by Tine Ravn and Mads P. Sørensen