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: Dennis Rodgers on Urban Violence](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1598293021927-07LWXH4D6BOBIC6V9R17/dennis-rogers-tcs.jpg)
Video: Dennis Rodgers on Urban Violence
![Rob Shields and Andriko Lozowy on Mashup](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1600767294937-W45UHL8BD2VFIZDOUZU4/Andriko+Lozowy+-+City+as+Stage.jpg)
Rob Shields and Andriko Lozowy on Mashup
![Richard G. Smith on Satellites and Cities from Space](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1600771309527-T540IK8L7OMY751E0EE2/NASA-Palm-Island-Resort-Dubai-United-Arab-Emirates.jpg)
Richard G. Smith on Satellites and Cities from Space
![AbdouMaliq Simone on Cities, Neoliberalism and the Commons](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1600300720551-R1L4THCFGU4HBECZFCL1/abdoumaliq-simone.jpg)
AbdouMaliq Simone on Cities, Neoliberalism and the Commons
![Caroline Knowles: Commentary on Ryan Bishop & John WP Phillips’, ‘The Urban Problematic’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1600340921454-TWN1EAHQ6XOTOPPFVI1D/Caroline-Knowles.jpg)
Caroline Knowles: Commentary on Ryan Bishop & John WP Phillips’, ‘The Urban Problematic’
![Review: Neiva Vieira de Cunha & Gabriel de Santis Feltran, ‘Sobre Periferias: novos conflitos no Brasil contemporâneo’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edff03d09fb5c4e902ff773/1600079722769-JC913UW7W9EYL56P60PG/Neiva+Vieira+de+Cunha-Gabriel+de+Santis+Feltran+-+Sobre+Periferias-novos+conflitos+no+Brasil+contempor%C3%A2neo.jpg)
Review: Neiva Vieira de Cunha & Gabriel de Santis Feltran, ‘Sobre Periferias: novos conflitos no Brasil contemporâneo’
Reviewed by Angelo Martins Junior
TCS Special Issues
Against Ontology: Chinese Thought and François Jullien, edited by Scott Lash and Shiqiao Li
Foucault before the Collège de France, edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?, edited by Martin Seeliger & Sebastian Sevignani
Solid Fluids, edited by Tim Ingold & Cristián Simonetti
Post-Neoliberalism?, edited by William Davies & Nicholas Gane
Problematizing the Problematic, edited by Martin Savransky
From the Archive
James Ash on Affective Transmission (2004)
Marcelo Hoffman on Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues: Michel Foucault in Brazil (2017)
Rosi Braidotti: ‘Posthuman, All Too Human: Towards a New Process Ontology’ (2006)
TCS E-Special Issues
TCS Book Series
B&S Special Issues
Symmetries of Touch: Reconsidering Tactility in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing, edited by Rebekka Ladewig & Henning Schmidgen
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World, edited by Andrew Russell & Rebecca Oxley
The Body in Pain: A Re-engagement, edited by Leila Dawney & Timothy J Huzar
Skin Matters: Thinking Through the Body’s Surfaces, edited by Marc Lafrance
Indeterminate Bodies, edited by Claire Waterton & Kathryn Yusoff
Surveillance and Embodiment: Dispositifs of Capture, edited by Martin French & Gavin JD Smith