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.
Richard G. Smith on Satellites and Cities from Space
Review: Stuart Elden, ‘The Birth of Territory’
Reviewed by Dennis Crow
Ulrich Beck and Japan
By Kiyoshi Abe
Scott Lash remembers Ulrich Beck
The Aesthetics of Algorithms: An Interview with Carolyn L. Kane
Interviewed by David Beer
Carolyn Pedwell on Empathy, Accuracy and Transnational Politics
Simone M. Hüning: Criminalizing Poverty and Fragmenting the City in Brazil
Gurminder Bhambra on The Society of Equals (Part Two)
James Burton on Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth
Video: Jane Ribbens McCarthy and Raia Prokhovnik on Embodied Relationality and Caring after Death
Review: Pierre Dardot & Christian Laval, ‘The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society’
Reviewed by Emanuele Leonardi
Video: Mark Harvey on Food, Energy & Climate Change
Video: Joanna Latimer & Mara Miele on Naturecultures
Review: Caroline Knowles, ‘Flip-Flop: A Journey through Globalisation’s Backroads’
Reviewed by Vicki Dabrowski
Gurminder Bhambra: What does the Haitian Revolution tell us about the Society of Equals?
Craig Martin on Adhocism
Review: Elettra Stimilli, ‘Il debito del vivente’
Reviewed by Matteo Pasquinelli
The future of affect theory: An interview with Margaret Wetherell
Interviewed by David Beer
Brian Castellani on the Complexity Sciences
Review: Nikolas Rose & Joelle M. Abi-Rached, ‘Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind’
Reviewed by Sibille Merz