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.
Review: Erich Hörl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, and Lotte Warnsholdt (eds.), ‘Critique and the Digital’
Reviewed by Bryan Norton
Review: Achille Mbembe, ‘Out of the Dark Night’
Reviewed by Bulelani Jili
Video: Achille Mbembe, 'Notes on Brutalism'
Video: Muneeb Hafiz on ‘Smashing the Imperial Frame: Race, Culture, (De)Coloniality’
TCS Philosophy & Literature Conference 2019
Video: ‘Truth, Fiction, Illusion: Worlds & Experience' Conference 2019
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.
Vanessa E. Thompson: Commentary on David Goldberg’s Conversation with Achille Mbembe
Robbie Shilliam: Commentary on David Goldberg’s Conversation with Achille Mbembe
Gabriel Apata: Commentary on David Theo Goldberg's Conversation with Achille Mbembe
In Conversation: Achille Mbembe and David Theo Goldberg on ‘Critique of Black Reason’
Review: Achille Mbembe, ‘Critique of Black Reason’
Reviewed by Gabriel O Apata