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: Elisabetta Basso on ‘Foucault’s Critique of the Human Sciences in the 1950s’
Body & Society 25th Anniversary: An Interview with Bryan S Turner
Interviewed by Tomoko Tamari
Review: Amit Pinchevski, ‘Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma’
Reviewed by Norma Musih
Max Weber in Theory, Culture & Society. On the 100th Anniversary of His Death
By Matthias Wieser
Video: Tribute to Bernard Stiegler
Video: Martin Albrow on 'Max Weber: From Modernity to Globality'
Roy Boyne 1947-2020
By Scott Lash
Video: Maria Tamboukou on ‘The Non-Nomadic Subject of Feminism’
Review: Aaron Bastani, ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto’
Reviewed by Mark Featherstone
Journal News: October 2020
Review: Rebecca Coleman, ‘Glitterworlds. The Future Politics of a Ubiquitous Thing’
Reviewed by Signe Ravn
Video: Thomas Kemple on ‘A Century after Weber and Simmel’
Review: Donatella Di Cesare, ‘Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration’
Reviewed by Emmanuel Jouai
Video: Manfred Steger on ‘Disjunctive Globalization in the Era of the Great Unsettling’
Video: Gabriel O. Apata on 'The Suffocating Nature of Racism'
Technics of Memory and Life: Bernard Stiegler in Memoriam
By Scott Lash
Out now: September 2020 Issue
Review: Louise Amoore, ‘Cloud Ethics’
Reviewed by Suryansu Guha