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.
‘Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain’: An Interview with Dr. Lisa McKenzie
Interviewed by Vicki Dabrowski
‘Exercises in the History of Ideas’: An Interview with Stuart Elden
Interviewed by Dale Leorke and Suneel Jethani
Yiğit Soncul on Masks and Emergency in Turkey
Ralph Schroeder: Commentary on Volker H. Schmidt’s ‘Breakthrough of Global Modernity’
Rhythmanalysis: An Interview with Paola Crespi
Interviewed by Sunil Manghani
Terry Flew on Foucault, Weber and Neoliberal Governmentality
Volker H. Schmidt on Global Modernity
Ross Abbinnett on Trolling the Net: The Phenomenology of Love and Hate
Zones of Indeterminacy: An interview with Peng Yu
Interviewed by Sunil Manghani and Cheng-Chu Weng
Interview: Pasi Väliaho on video games and rhythm
Interviewed by James Ash
'The Biology of History': Antibiotics, Resistant Bacteria and the Human Effect. An Interview with Hannah Landecker
Interviewed by Andrea Núñez Casal
Beck in Brazil by Rodrigo Constante Martins
Finn Mackay on Radical Feminism
David Theo Goldberg on Wallcraft: The Politics of Walling
Rob Shields and Andriko Lozowy on Mashup
Johanna Oksala on Foucault, Marx and Neoliberal Subjects
Richard G. Smith on Satellites and Cities from Space
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
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