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: 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’
In Memory of Couze Venn
By Mike Featherstone
Review: John Smyth, ‘The Toxic University’
Reviewed by Filip Vostal
Video: Arianne Conty on ‘The Politics of Nature: New Materialist Responses to the Anthropocene’
Review: Susanna Paasonen, ‘Many Splendored Things: Thinking Sex and Play’
Reviewed by João Florêncio
Review: Martijn Konings, ‘Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason’
Reviewed by Samuel Kirwan
Review: Jennifer Robertson, ‘Robo Sapiens Japanicus'
Reviewed by Mona Abaza
Video: Laurel Jean Fredrickson on Robert Filliou and the Eternal Network
Video: Alexandra Deem on the No Dakota Access Pipeline Movement
Review: Elizabeth Goodstein, ‘Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary’
Reviewed by Mark Featherstone
Think-Piece: Commemoration and Spectacle in the Centenary of Women’s Suffrage
Laura E. Nym Mayhall reflects on the suffrage movement. Are we all militants now?
Review: Samuel Burgum, ‘Occupying London: Post Crash Resistance and the Limits of Possibility’
Reviewed by Pete Bearder
Review: Kehinde Andrews, ‘Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Think-Piece: The Neglected Intellectual Legacy of '1968'
Couze Venn reflects on the 50th anniversary of May '68