Topics and contributors include: Introduction Mike Featherstone and Couze Venn Metaconcepts Classification Roy Boyne Scientific Classification John Dupré Generative Classifications Luciana Parisi The Collection Couze Venn Classification and Human Language Mark Donohue Classification in French Social Theory Derek Robbins Rubbish, Etcetera Couze Venn The Unclassifiable Maria Esther Maciel Language John Phillips and Ryan Bishop Rhetoric Roy Sellars Writing Steve Clark The Politics of Metaphor Don Miller Language and Nation Ismail Talib Ethnopoetics Dell Hymes Translation Naoki Sakai The Possibility of Translation Saranindranath Tagore Translation: Politics and Ethics Couze Venn Translation in China Fan Jinghua Logic(s) Bryan S Turner The Logic of Possible Worlds Neil Turnbull The Religious Roots of Mathematics C.K. Raju Logic of Knowledge John Phillips Assemblage George Marcus and Erkan Saka A Note on Assemblage Couze Venn Agencement/Assemblage John Phillips As the journal Theory, Culture & Society approaches its 25 th Anniversary in 2007, members of the TCS editorial board, along with colleagues in East and South-East Asia and other parts of the world, have been working on a new ambitious undertaking: the New Encyclopaedia Project. The TCS special issue ‘Problematizing Global Knowledge’ is our first venture in ‘encyclopaedic explorations’ which outlines our concern to begin to rethink knowledge under the impact of globalization and digitalization. The issue will feature over 150 entries and supplements on a range of topics which are addressed in terms of their relevance to knowledge formation, by contributors writing from a wide range of perspectives and different parts of the world. The entries and supplements are gathered under three main headings: metaconcepts, metanarratives and sites and institutions. The issue is edited by Mike Featherstone, Couze Venn, Ryan Bishop and John Phillips, with Pal Ahluwalia, Roy Boyne, Beng Huat Chua, John Hutnyk, Scott Lash, Maria Esther Maciel, George Marcus, Aihwa Ong, Roland Robertson, Bryan Turner, Shiv Visvanathan, Shunya Yoshimi. Problematizing Global Knowledge: Special Issue Volume 23, Nos 2-3, March-May 2006 Complexity John Urry Autopoesis Jakob Arnoldi Time Barbara Adam Social Time Sebastian Olma Event Mariam Fraser Chronotope Luis Alberto Brandão Contingency Marcio Seligmann-Silva Space Nigel Thrift Knowing Space Rob Shields Mobility and the City Brenda Yeoh Junk Space Bobby Chong Thai Wong and Ryan Bishop Science Celia Roberts and Adrian Mackenzie Alternative science Shiv Visvanathan Knowledge as Ecology Susantha Goonatilake Science, Technology and Society Michael M. J. Fischer The Human Sciences Sam Whimster Islam and Knowledge Bobby Sayyid Enlightenment (Zen Buddhist) John Whalen-Bridge Ignorance Ryan Bishop and John Phillips Discipline Bryan Turner The Knowledge Apparatus Ryan Bishop and John Phillips A Note on Knowledge Couze Venn Deconstruction John Phillips Critique Kiyoshi Abe Poetic Knowledge Rajeev Patke Everyday Knowledge Michael Gardiner Tacit Knowledge Rod Watson Theory, Culture & Society