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Mike Featherstone is Director of the Theory, Culture & Society Centre and research professor of sociology and communications. Featherstone was research professor at Nottingham Trent University, UK and is visiting professor in Barcelona, Geneva, Kyoto, Recife, São Paulo, Tokyo and Vancouver. He has also been influential in generating international funding and organizing conferences such as the Ubiquitous Media Conference (2005) in Tokyo.He is founding editor of the journal Theory, Culture & Society (1982-) and the Theory, Culture & Society Book Series (1991-). He is also the editor-in-chief of the journal Body & Society (1995-).

Featherstone is the author of Consumer Culture and Postmodernism (1991, second edition 2007) and Undoing Culture: Globalization, Postmodernism and Identity (1995). He is the co-author of Surviving Middle Age (1982). He is the editor of Postmodernism (1988), Global Culture (1990), Georg Simmel (1991) Cultural Theory and Cultural Change (1992), Love and Eroticism (1999), Body Modification (2000). Co-editor of The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory (1991), Global Modernities (1995), Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment (1995), Images of Ageing (1995), Simmel on Culture (1997), Spaces of Culture (1999) and Recognition and Difference (2002), Automobilities (2005), Problematizing Global Knowledge (2006). Author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on social and cultural theory, consumer and global culture, ageing and the body. His books and articles have been translated into sixteen languages.

Books

 * The Militant Worker, Class and Radicalism in France and America, London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1984.
 * The End of Organized Capitalism, Cambridge: Polity Books, 1987. (Co-author is John Urry). (2nd printing 1988, 3rd prtg 1991, 4th 1995, 5th 1998)
 * Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity, London: Allen and Unwin, 1987 (Co-edited with Sam Whimster).
 * Sociology of Postmodernism, London: Routledge, 1990. (2nd printing 1990, 3rd prtg 1991, 4th prtg. 1994); trans. into Slovenian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Romanian)
 * Post-Structuralist and Postmodernist Sociology, Sussex, Edward Elgar, 1991 (edited)
 * Modernity and Identity, Oxford: Blackwell, 1992 (co-edited with Jonathan Friedman) (Korean trans. contracted, July 1994). 2nd printing 1994.
 * Economies of Signs and Space, London: TCS/Sage 1994. (co-author is J Urry). (trans. into German (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp) Korean, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. (3rd printing 1999)
 * Reflexive Modernization, Cambridge: Polity Press 1994. (2nd printing 1996) (Co-authors Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens) (trans. German, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, Finnish, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Chinese)
 * Global Modernities, London: TCS/Sage, 1995 (co-ed. with M. Featherstone and R. Robertson)
 * De-Traditionalization, Oxford: Blackwell, 1996 (co-ed. with P. Heelas and P. Morris)
 * Risk, Environment and Modernity, London: Sage (TCS), 1996 (co-ed. with B. Szerszynski and B. Wynne )
 * Time and Value, Oxford: Blackwell, 1998 (co-ed. with Andrew Quick and Richard Roberts)
 * Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World, London: Sage 1999 (co-ed. with M. Featherstone)
 * Another Modernity, A Different Rationality, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
 * Critique of Information, London: Sage, 2002. (trans. Contracted in Spanish, Japanese, Chinese)
 * Recognition and Difference: Politics, Identity, Multiculture (co-ed. with M. Featherstone) London: Sage, 2002.
 * Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things, Cambridge: Polity (2005), contracted. co-author is C. Lury.

Articles

 * “Communicative Rationality and Desire”. Telos 61 (Fall 1984). New York: Telos Press.
 * "Being after Time", in S. Lash and A. Quick (eds.) Time and Value, Oxford: Blackwell, 1998, pp. 147-161. And in Cultural Values, vol. 2, nos. 2-3, June 1998, 304-318.
 * "The Consequences of Reflexivity: Towards a Theory of the Object", in J. Philip (ed.) Reflexivity and Culture (London, Pluto, 1998).
 * "Risk Culture", in Barbara Adam, Ulrich Beck and Joost Van Loon (eds.) The Risk Society and Beyond, London: Sage 2000, pp. 47-62. ISBN 0761964681.
 * "Informationkritik", Revista Critique des Ciencias Sociales, vol. 22., no,3.
 * "Technological Forms of Life", Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 18, no.1, 2001.
 * "Recognition or Difference", Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 18, no. 6, 2001.
 * "From Accumulation to Circulation: Young British Art and the Culture Society", in Arturo Rodriguez Morato, The Culture Society, Barcelona, 2002.. (co-author is John Myles)
 * "New Media: From Creativity to Consultancy", Environment and Planning A, vol. 22, Nov. 2002. (with Andreas Wittel).
 * "Understanding New Media Objects: From Content to Connectivity", in S. Woolgar (ed.) The Virtual Society?, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. (with C. Lury and A. Wittel).
 * "Lebenssoziologie: Georg Simmel in the Information Age", Theory, Culture & Society (f2004)
 * "Power after Hegemony: Cultural Studies in Mutation?", Theory, Culture, and Society, 24(3), 2007 :55-78.