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: Ekow Eshun, ‘In The Black Fantastic’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Review: Zygmunt Bauman, ‘Culture and Art: Selected Writings, Vol. 1’
Reviewed by Elena Álvarez-Álvarez
Review: Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J. R. Osborn, ‘African Art Reframed: Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Cultures’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Review: Rita Felski, ‘Hooked. Art and Attachment’
Reviewed by María Angélica Thumala Olave
Earwitnesses of a Coup Night: The Many Media Infrastructures of Social Action
By Jussi Parikka
Review: David M. Berry and Michael Dieter, ‘Postdigital Aesthetics’
Reviewed by M. Beatrice Fazi
Rhythmanalysis: An Interview with Paola Crespi
Interviewed by Sunil Manghani
Zones of Indeterminacy: An interview with Peng Yu
Interviewed by Sunil Manghani and Cheng-Chu Weng
The Aesthetics of Algorithms: An Interview with Carolyn L. Kane
Interviewed by David Beer
Sunil Manghani on Transmediale 2014
Interview with Boris Groys
Interviewed by Simon Dawes
Interview with Hannah Abdullah and Matthias Benzer on Boris Groys
Interviewed by Simon Dawes
Interview with Jeffrey Shaw on new media art
Interviewed by Yuk Hui
Ayelet Zohar and Ibrahim Nubani: Interview and Images
Interviewed by Simon Dawes
Exhibition Review: ‘Unfold: Art from Cape Farewell’
Reviewed by Jennifer Barth
Interview with John W.P. Phillips on Badiou, Rancière...and Žižek
Interviewed by Simon Dawes