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.
TCS Special Issue: ‘Foucault before the Collège de France’
Edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini
Review: Dario Gentili, ‘The Age of Precarity’
Reviewed by Arthur Bradley
Review: Erich Hörl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, and Lotte Warnsholdt (eds.), ‘Critique and the Digital’
Reviewed by Bryan Norton
Video: Alison Downham Moore on 'Foucault’s 1960s Lectures on Sexuality'
Video: ‘Foucault’s Confessions’ Online Series
‘Foucault’s Confessions’. Free Online Series, May-June 2021
Video: Carlos Palacios on ‘Symbiosis and the Humanitarian Marketplace’
Video: Troels Krarup on 'Archaeological Methodology: Foucault and the History of Systems of Thought’
Video: Daniele Lorenzini on 'Philosophical Discourse and Ascetic Practice'
Video: Andrea Di Gesu on 'Parrhesia, Community, and Democracy'
Video: Discussion of Michel Foucault’s ‘The Punitive Society’
Hosted by Columbia University and the University of Warwick
Video: Stuart Elden on 'Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker'
Video: Elisabetta Basso on ‘Foucault’s Critique of the Human Sciences in the 1950s’
Video: Maurizio Meloni on ‘Porous Bodies: Environmental Biopower and the Politics of Life in Ancient Rome’
Review: Sandro Chignola, ‘Foucault’s Politics of Philosophy. Power, Law and Subjectivity’
Reviewed by Irene Dal Poz
Video: Nicholas Gane on ‘Competition: A Critical History of a Concept’
Video: Rosalind Cooper on ‘Pastoral Power and Algorithmic Governmentality’
Review: Michel Foucault, ‘Confessions of the Flesh’
Reviewed by Stuart Elden
Video: Marcelo Hoffman on Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues’ ‘Michel Foucault in Brazil’
Video: Sebastian Raza on ‘An Interview with Wendy Brown: Redoing the Demos?’
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