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: Rakesh Sengupta on ‘The Absent Archive of Screenwriting History and the Obsolete Munshi’
Review: Alain Badiou, ‘The Pornographic Age’
Reviewed by Ekin Erkan
TCS Special Issue: Neutral Life / Late Barthes
Edited by Sunil Manghani
Video: Maurizio Meloni on ‘Porous Bodies: Environmental Biopower and the Politics of Life in Ancient Rome’
Video: Rafaela Granja on 'The (De)materialization of Criminal Bodies in Forensic DNA Phenotyping'
Video: Xuenan Cao on ‘Bullet Screens (Danmu)’
Journal News: June 2020
Latest Special Issues from Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society
Review: Craig Lundy, ‘Deleuze’s Bergsonism’
Reviewed by Alex Gomez-Marin
Video: Jane Macnaughton on ‘Making Breath Visible’
Video: Paolo Totaro on ‘Biological Recursion and Digital Systems’
Video: Blake Allen on ‘Merleau-Ponty: Beauty, Phenomenology, and the ‘Theological Turn”
Video: Andrew Russell on ‘Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World’
TCS Book Series: François Jullien’s ‘From Being to Living’
A compelling summation of Jullien’s thinking on the comparison and divergences between Western and Chinese thought.
Video: Kristin Plys on ‘The Poetry of Resistance’
Review: Plessner, ‘Political Anthropology’ and ‘Levels of Organic Life and the Human’ & Fischer, ‘Exzentrische Postionalität’
Reviewed by Austin Harrington
Review: Francesca Ferrando, ‘Philosophical Posthumanism’
Reviewed by Alexander Thomas
Review: Sandro Chignola, ‘Foucault’s Politics of Philosophy. Power, Law and Subjectivity’
Reviewed by Irene Dal Poz