Editorial Team

Mike Featherstone is a Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has been the founding editor of Theory, Culture & Society since its establishment in 1982 at Teesside University, and was founding co-editor of Body & Society in 1995, becoming editor-in chief in 2008.  He is also the founding editor of the Theory, Culture & Society Book Series which started in 1990.

He is the author of Consumer Culture and Postmodernism (1991, second edition 2007) and Undoing Culture: Globalization, Postmodernism and Identity (1995). Co-author of Surviving Middle Age (1982). 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).

He is also the 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. Consumer Culture and Postmodernism has been translated into Chinese, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish and Turkish. Undoing Culture has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian and Portuguese. Other books and articles have been translated into Bulgarian, Croatian, French, German, Hungarian and Ukrainian. He has spent time as a visiting professor in Barcelona, Geneva, Kyoto, Recife, São Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo and Vancouver.

Sunil Manghani is Professor of Theory, Practice & Critique and Deputy Head of School, Director of Research at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK. He is a co-opted trustee for the Council for Higher Education in Art and Design, and also an associate member of Tate Exchange; University of Southampton’s Web Science Institute; and the Alan Turing Institute’s AI for Arts interest group. He teaches and writes on various aspects of critical theory, visual arts and image studies. He is author of Image Studies: Theory and Practice (2013), and editor of Zero Degree Seeing: Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics (2019); India’s Biennale Effect: A Politics of Contemporary Art (2016); Farewell to Visual Studies (2015), Images: A Reader (2006), and a special issue of Theory, Culture & Society: ‘Neutral Life/Late Barthes’ (2020). 

Rainer Winter is Professor of Media and Cultural Theory at the Institute for Media and Communications, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet in Klagenfurt on Lake Woerther (Austria) and Honorary Professor at University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. His background is in sociology, psychology and philosophy. He is the (co-)author and (co-)editor of more than 30 books, including: Research Handbook on Critical Theory (2021), Handbuch Filmsoziologie. Three Volumes (2020), Film als Kunst (2020), (Mis)Understanding Political Participation. Digital Practices, New Forms of Participation and the Renewal of Democracy (2018),  Handbuch Mediensoziologie (2018), Enigma Agency (2018), Die Kunst des Eigensinns. Cultural  Studies als Kritik der Macht (2017, Second Edition), Der produktive Zuschauer. Medienaneignung als kultureller und ästhetischer Prozess (2010, Second Edition) and Global America? The Cultural Consequences of Globalization (2003).

Ryan Bishop teaches at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK, where he co-directs the research group Archaeologies of Media and Technology with Jussi Parikka. He has published on critical theory, aesthetics, military technology, urbanisim and visual/literary culture. His most recent books include Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde (2020, with John Beck, Duke UP), Seeing Degree Zero: Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics (2020, with Sunil Manghani, Edinburgh UP) and Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics (2016, with John Beck, Edinburgh UP). He is co-editor of the book series “A Cultural Politics Book” (Duke UP) and “Technicities” (Edinburgh UP).

Scott Lash is Research Affiliate at COMPAS and the School of Anthropology at Oxford University and Visiting Professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.  He taught at Lancaster University 1977-1998 and was founding Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths. His books (some co-authored) include The End of Organized Capitalism (1987), Sociology of Postmodernism (1990), Economies of Signs and Space (1994), Reflexive Modernization (1994), Critique of Information (2002) and Global Culture Industry (2007),  China Constructing Capitalism: Economic Life and Urban Change (2014) and Experience: New Foundations for the Human Sciences (2018). He is co-editor of forthcoming TCS Special Issue Against Ontology: François Jullien and Chinese Thought and is writing a new book on infrastructure-power in China. 

John Phillips teaches at the National University of Singapore. He is Chair of the Executive Committee of the Association for Philosophy and Literature. He writes on critical theory, literature, media, philosophy, psychoanalysis, science, society, and technology. Publications include Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology (with Ryan Bishop) and the edited volume, Derrida Now (Polity). He is currently completing a book on Jacques Derrida and philosophy and has just completed a book on the significance of the dawn at the end of the world.