Introduction

Rolland Munro

Part 1: Imagining Mass

Introduction to Part I

Interpreting mass: collection/dispersion

Robert Cooper

Pass the salt: how language moves matter

Dan Rose

The mystery of the Assumption: mothers and measures

Heather Hopfl

Sound, technics, energy: (consumption)

Rob Beeston

Part 2: Mass and Community

Introduction to Part 2

On mass, individuals, and peg communities

Zygmunt Bauman

The waiting of mass: endless displacement and the death of community

Rolland Munro

Consuming averages: interpreting luck and the social mass

Jane Parish

Virtual masses and real minorities: imagining the nation across space and time: the case of Rhodesians on the world wide web

Doug Stuart

Part 3: Mass and Persons

Introduction to Part 3

All-consuming passions: materials and subjectivity in the age of enhancement

Joanna Latimer

Becoming mass: glamour, authority and human presence

Nick Lee

Ordering others and othering orders: the consumption and disposal of otherness

Cristina Palli Monguilod

Border blues: between Maastricht and Dada disorder

Robert Grafton Small

Notes on contributors

Index