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: Indrek Ibrus and Maarja Ojamaa on ‘The Creativity of Digital (Audiovisual) Archives’
Video: Mats Nilsson & Mekonnen Tesfahuney on ‘What Space for Female Subjectivity in the Post-Secular?’
Video: Nicholas Gane on ‘Competition: A Critical History of a Concept’
TCS Special Issue: Transversal Posthumanities
Edited by Matthew Fuller and Rosi Braidotti
Review: Lisa Blackman, ‘Haunted Data: Affect, Transmedia and Weird Science’
Reviewed by Carolyn Pedwell
Video: Olga Cielemęcka and Christine Daigle on ‘Posthuman Sustainability: An Ethos for our Anthropocenic Future’
Video: Emily Rosamond on ‘From Reputation Capital to Reputation Warfare’
Video: Cristián Simonetti on ‘The Petrified Anthropocene’
Video: Pia Heike Johansen on ‘Listening to Silence: Bringing Forward the Background Noise of Being’
Review: ‘Pattern Discrimination’, by Apprich, Chun, Cramer & Steyerl
Reviewed by Nicola Bozzi
Video: Adam Arvidsson on ‘Capitalism and the Commons’
Video: Sang-Jin Han on ‘Dialogue with John Dunn on Korean Denuclearization’
Video: Rosalind Cooper on ‘Pastoral Power and Algorithmic Governmentality’
Video: Madeleine Pape on ‘Expertise and Non-binary Bodies: Sex, Gender and the Case of Dutee Chand’
TCS Philosophy & Literature Conference 2019
Rita Felski: My Sociology Envy
Video: ‘Truth, Fiction, Illusion: Worlds & Experience' Conference 2019
Video: Natasja Kingod on ‘Noise as Dysappearance: Attuning to a Life with Type 1 Diabetes’
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.