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The following have been selected from the first 25 years of Theory, Culture & Society 1982-2007 to give some indication of the range of pieces published in the journal. They represent my own choices, whittled down from an original cut of nearly 200 articles. I have tried to give both a sense of the wide range of topics covered by the journal and the range of disciplinary foci involved. Comments and views on alternative selections are to be welcomed.

Mike Featherstone

Appadurai, Arjun Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy  7(2-3): 295-310
Amin, Ash Multi-Ethnicity and the Idea of Europe  21(2): 1-24
Armitage, John From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond: An Interview with Paul Virilio  16(5-6): 25-56
Arnason, Johann P. State Formation in Japan and the West  13(3): 53-75
Banerjea, Partha and Kaur, Raminder Jazzgeist: Racial Signs of Twisted Times  17(3): 159-180
Baudrillard, Jean The Virtual Illusion: Or, the Automatic Writing of the World  12(4): 143-53
Bauman, Zygmunt Effacing the Face: On the Social Management of Moral Proximity  7(1): 5-38
Beck, Ulrich The Cosmopolitan Society and its Enemies  19(1-2): 17-44
Billig, Michael Lacan's Misuse of Psychology: Evidence, Rhetoric and the Mirror Stage  23(4): 1-26
Bleicher, Josef and Mike Featherstone Historical Materialism Today: An Interview with Anthony Giddens  1(2): 63-77
Bourdieu, Pierre and Loic Wacquant On the Cunning of Imperialist Reason  16(1): 41-58
Bourgois, Philippe Just another Night in the Shooting Gallery   15(2): 37-66
Braidotti, Rosi Meta(l)morphoses  14(2): 67-80
Butler, Judith Revisiting Bodies and Pleasure   16(2): 11-20
Calhoun, Craig Postmodernism as Pseudohistory  10(1): 75-96
Chaney, David The Department Store as a Cultural Form  1(3): 22-31
Cocco, Giuseppe and Lazzarato, Maurizio Ruptures within Empire, the Power of Exodus: Interview with Toni Negri  19(4): 187-194
Collins, Randall On the Sociology of Intellectual Stagnation: The Late Twentieth Century in Perspective  9(1): 73-96
Connolly, William E Tocqueville, Territory and Violence  11(1): 19-41
de Swaan, Abram Widening Circles of Disidentification: On the Psycho- and Sociogenesis of the Hatred of Distant Strangers - Reflections on Rwanda  14(2): 105-22
Deleuze, Gilles Immanence: A Life  14(2): 3-7
Denzin, Norman K. Blue Velvet: Postmodern Contradictions  5(2-3): 461-73
Dumont, Louis Collective Identities and Universalist Ideology: The Actual Interplay  3(3): 25-33
Dunning, Eric Sport as a Male Preserve: Notes on the Social Sources of Masculine Identity and its Transformations  3(1): 79-90
Eder, Klaus The Rise of Counter-culture Movements Against Modernity: Nature as a New Field of Class Struggle  7(4): 21-47
Elias, Norbert The Retreat of Sociologists into the Present  4(2-3): 223-47
Bracha L. Ettinger Weaving a Woman Artist with-in the Matrixial Encounter-Event  21(1): 69-94
Evans, Mary 'Falling in Love with Love is Falling for Make Believe': Ideologies of Romance in Post-Enlightenment Culture  21(1): 69-94
Eyerman, Ron and Orvar Löfgren Romancing the Road: Road Movies and Images of Mobility  12(1): 53-79
Featherstone, Mike Automobilities: an Introduction  21(4-5): 1-24
Friedman, Jonathan Being in the World: Globalization and Localization  7(2-3): 311-28
Fraser, Nancy Recognition without Ethics  18(2-3): 21-42
Frisby, David Georg Simmel: First Sociologist of Modernity  2(3): 49-67
Fromm, Eric Infantilization and Despair Masquerading as Radicalism  10(2): 197-206
Gadamer, Hans-Georg Language and Understanding  23(1): 13-27
Gilroy, Paul Joined-up Politics and Post-Colonial Melancholia  18(2-3):151-168
Gluck, Mary The Flaneur and the Aesthetic: Appropriation of Urban Culture in Mid-19th Century Paris  20 (5): 53-80
Habermas, Jürgen Notes on the Developmental History of Horkheimer's Work  10(2): 61-77
Hansen, Mark Media Theory  23(2-3)
Hayles, N. Katherine Computing the Human  21(1): 131-51
Hochschild, Arlie Russell The Commercial Spirit of Intimate Life and the Abduction of Feminism: Signs from Women's Advice Books  11(2): 1-24
Horkheimer, Max Reason against Itself: Some Remarks on Enlightenment  10(2): 79-88
Kearney, Richard Myth and Sacrificial Scapegoats: On Rene Girard  12(4): 47-60
Kellner, Douglas Virilio, War and Technology: Some Critical Reflections  16(5-6): 103-126
Kittler, Friedrich Thinking Colours and/or Machines  23(7-8)
Knorr Cetina, Karin Complex Global Microstructures; the New Terrorist Societies  22(5): 213-34
Kroker, Arthur Baudrillard's Marx  2(3): 69-83
Lash, Scott Technological Forms of Life  18(1): 105-120
Latham, Robert Social Sovereignty  17(4): 1-18
Latour, Bruno and Venn, Couze Morality and Technology: The End of the Means  19(5-6): 247-260
Levine, Donald N. On the Critique of 'Utilitarian' Theories of Action: Newly Identified Convergences among Simmel, Weber and Parsons  17(1): 63-78
Luhmann, Niklas Limits of Steering  14(1): 41-57
Lyotard, Jean-Francois Anamnesis: Of the Visible  21(1): 107-119
Maffesoli, Michel The Ethic of Aesthetics  8(1): 7-20
Mannheim, Karl The Sociology of Intellectuals  10(3): 69-80
Marcuse, Herbert Some Remarks on Aragon: Art and Politics in the Totalitarian Era  10(2): 181-95
Martin, Bernice 'Mother Wouldn't Like It!': Housework as Magic  2(2): 19-36
McCann, Graham Biographical Boundaries: Sociology and Marilyn Monroe  4(4): 619-32
Mennell, Stephen On the Civilizing of Appetite  4(2-3): 373-403
Merriman, Peter Driving Places: Marc Auge and the Geographies of England's M1 Motorways  21(4-5): 145-67
Milbank, John Stories of Sacrifice  12(4): 61-92
Moeran, Brian The Orient Strikes Back: Advertising and Imagining Japan  13(3): 77-112
Moscovici, Serge Questions for the Twenty-first Century  7(4): 1-19
Ong, Aihwa Mutations in Citizenship  23(2-3)
Parsons, Talcott A Tentative Outline of American Values  6(4): 577-612
Pels, Dick and Aya Cré bas Carmen - or the Invention of a New Feminine Myth  5(4): 579-610
Randeria, Shalini The State of Globalisation: Legal Plurality, Overlapping Sovereignties and Ambiguous Alliances between Civil Society and the Cunning State in India  23(6):
Richardson, Michael Sociology on a Razor's Edge: Configurations of the Sacred at the College of Sociology  9(3): 27-44
Robertson, Roland Mapping the Global Condition: Globalization as the Central Concept  7(2-3): 15-30
Rose, Nikolas The Politics of Life Itself  18(6): 1-30
Sakai, Naoki Translation  23(2-3)
Sacks, Harvey Max Weber's Ancient Judaism  16(1): 31-39
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa Nuestra America: Reinventing a Subaltern Paradigm of Recognition and Redistribution  18(2-3): 185-218
Sassen, Saskia Digital Networks and the State: Some Governance Questions  17(4): 19-34
Schegloff, Emmanuel A. On Sacks on Weber on Ancient Judaism: Introductory Notes and Interpretive Resources  16(1): 1-29
Scott, Allen J. French Cinema: Economy, Policy and Place in the Making of a Cultural-Products Industry  17(1): 1-38
Shields, Rob The 'System of Pleasure': Liminality and the Carnivalesque at Brighton  7(1): 39-72
Simmel, Georg The Problem of Style  8(3): 63-71
Skov, Lise Trends, Japonisme and Postmodernism, Or, 'What is so Japanese about Comme des Gar çons?'  13(3): 129-51
Strathern, Marilyn The Patent and the Malanggan  18(4): 1-26
Tenbruck, Friedrich International History of Society or Universal History?  11(1): 75-93
Teubner, Gunther Economics of Gift - Positivity of Justice: the Mutual Paranoia of Jacques Derrida and Niklas Luhmann  18(1): 29-48
Thompson, John B. The New Visibility  22(6): 31-51
Thrift, Nigel The Place of Complexity  16(3): 31�69
Touraine, Alain Beyond Social Movements?  9(1): 125-45
Turner, Bryan S. Ideology and Utopia in the Formation of an Intelligentsia: Reflections on the English Cultural Conduit  9(1): 125-45
Urry, John Complexities of the Global  22(5): 235-54
Vattimo, Gianni Hermeneutics as Koine  5(2-3): 399-408
Venn, Couze Beyond Enlightenment? After the Subject of Foucault, Who Comes?  14(3): 1-28
Wacquant, Loic Inside the Zone: The Social Art of the Hustler in the Black American Ghetto  15(2): 1�36
Wallerstein, Immanuel Culture as the Ideological Battleground of the Modern World-System  7(2-3): 31-55
Weber, Max Remarks on Technology and Culture  22(4): 23-38
Weeks, Jeff The Sexual Citizen  15(3�4): 35�52
Welsch, Wolfgang Aestheticization Processes: Phenomena, Distinctions and Prospects  13(1): 1-24
Werbner, Pnina Fun Spaces: On Identity and Social Empowerment among British Pakistanis  13(4): 53-79
Wernick, Andrew From Comte to Baudrillard: Socio-Theology after the End of the Social  17(6): 55-76
Wilson, Elizabeth Bohemian Love  15(3�4): 111�27
Wolff, Janet The Invisible Flâneuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity  2(3): 37-46
Wouters, Cas Formalization and Informalization: Changing Tension Balances in Civilizing Processes  3(2): 1-18
Yoshimi, Shunya Information  23(2-3)