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: ‘Truth, Fiction, Illusion: Worlds & Experience' Conference 2019
Gabriel O. Apata: On Not Being Achille Mbembe
The question is why did many mistake me for Mbembe? Apart from the fact that we were both black men, African, spectacle-wearing and shaven-headed.
In Memory of Couze Venn
By Mike 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?
Think-Piece: The Neglected Intellectual Legacy of '1968'
Couze Venn reflects on the 50th anniversary of May '68
Vanessa E. Thompson: Commentary on David Goldberg’s Conversation with Achille Mbembe
Robbie Shilliam: Commentary on David Goldberg’s Conversation with Achille Mbembe
Gabriel Apata: Commentary on David Theo Goldberg's Conversation with Achille Mbembe
In Conversation: Achille Mbembe and David Theo Goldberg on ‘Critique of Black Reason’
Rohit Dasgupta: Ambalavaner Sivanandan and Black Politics in Britain
A look at the contribution made by Ambalavaner Sivanandan to Black politics and organising in Britain
Against “Aging”: How to Talk about Growing Older
By Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Video Special Section: Rebecca Coleman and Liz Oakley-Brown on ‘Visualizing Surfaces, Surfacing Vision’
To be Human: An Interview with Daniel Chernilo
Interviewed by David Beer
Redoing the Demos? An Interview with Wendy Brown
Interviewed by Samuel Burgum, Sebastian Raza, and Jorge Vasquez
‘The Incorporeal’: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz
Interviewed by Vikki Bell
Elinor Carmi: Cookies – More than Meets the Eye
Earwitnesses of a Coup Night: The Many Media Infrastructures of Social Action
By Jussi Parikka
TCS E-Special Issue: John Urry
Edited by Mimi Sheller
Daniel Smith on Broadchurch as a Country Noir
Interview with Julia O’Connell Davidson on ‘Modern Slavery’
Interviewed by Angelo Martins Junior
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