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.
AI and Society: 'Digital Archives: Space, Time and Memory' (Online Seminar)
Review: Patrick ffrench, ‘Roland Barthes and Film’
Reviewed by Neil Badmington
Review: Charlton McIlwain, ‘Black Software’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Review: Beatriz Aldana Marquez, ‘From the Peaceable to the Barbaric’
Reviewed by Ana Cristina Ramírez Barreto
Video: Jim Vernon on 'Huey Newton’s Lessons for the Academic Left'
Video: Ilaria Riccioni and Jeffrey A. Halley on 'Pussy Riot as a Feminist Avant-Garde'
Review: Erich Hörl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, and Lotte Warnsholdt (eds.), ‘Critique and the Digital’
Reviewed by Bryan Norton
Video: Franz Krause on ‘The Tempo of Solid Fluids’
Video: Alan Finlayson on ‘Neoliberalism, the Alt-Right and the Intellectual Dark Web’
Journal News: September 2021
Latest issues from Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society
Video: Shoko Yoneyama on 'Miyazaki Hayao's Animism and the Anthropocene'
Review: Bernard E. Harcourt, ‘Critique and Praxis’
Reviewed by Ali Sadeghi
Review: Achille Mbembe, ‘Out of the Dark Night’
Reviewed by Bulelani Jili
Video: Joseph S. Alter on 'Biosemiotics and Religion'
Video: Mark Paterson on ‘Disability, Sensory Substitution and the Origins of the Neuroplastic Subject’
Video: Joe P.L. Davidson on 'Dub, Utopia and the Ruins of the Caribbean'
Visual Experiments in Drone Power
Review: Gerard Delanty (ed.), ‘Pandemics, Politics, and Society: Critical Perspectives on the Covid-19 Crisis’
Reviewed by Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Journal News: June 2021
Review: Rosi Braidotti, ‘Posthuman Knowledge’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata