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.
‘Foucault’s Confessions’. Free Online Series, May-June 2021
Review: Julian Go, ‘Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory’
Reviewed by Jessica K. Gill
Video: Carlos Palacios on ‘Symbiosis and the Humanitarian Marketplace’
Journal News: May 2021
Video: Daniel Smith on 'The Joke-Secret and an Ethics of Modern Individuality'
Video: Roger Burrows on 'Software, Sovereignty and the Post-Neoliberal Politics of Exit'
Journal News: March 2021
In Conversation: Daniel Ross and Ryan Bishop on Bernard Stiegler’s Internation
TCS Special Issue: ‘Problematizing the Problematic’
Edited by Martin Savransky
Video: Étienne Balibar, ‘Critical Reflections on the New Definition of the Human Species’
Video: Deborah Cowen, 'Crisis in Motion’
Video: Prasenjit Duara on 'Oceans as the Paradigm of History'
Video: Troels Krarup on 'Archaeological Methodology: Foucault and the History of Systems of Thought’
TCS Book Series: Nigel Thrift’s ‘Killer Cities’
An ‘epic compendium on the ravages of planetary urbanism from one of geography’s most generative thinkers’
Video: Daniele Lorenzini on 'Philosophical Discourse and Ascetic Practice'
Video: Andrea Di Gesu on 'Parrhesia, Community, and Democracy'
Journal News: January 2021
Review: Gaurav J. Pathania, ‘The University as a Site of Resistance’
Reviewed by Ruhail Andrabi
Video: Discussion of Michel Foucault’s ‘The Punitive Society’
Hosted by Columbia University and the University of Warwick