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1. Introduction / Joseph D. Hankins and Carolyn S. Stevens -- 2. Publics that scream, publics that slumber : sound and the tactics of publicity in the Buraku liberation movement / Joseph D. Hankins -- 3. Facing the nation : sound, fury, and public oratory among Japanese right-wing groups / Nathaniel M. Smith -- 4. The political affects of military aircraft noise in Okinawa / Rupert Cox -- 5. Distraction, noise, and ambient sounds in Tokyo / Lorraine Plourde -- 6. Sounding imaginative empathy : Chindon-ya's affective economies on the streets of Osaka / Marie Abe -- 7. The swinging phonograph in a hot teahouse : sound technology and the emergence of the jazz community in prewar Japan / Shuhei Hosokawa.

"In an original dialogue between philosophy and psychoanalytic theory, this book reflects upon a variety of social formations and their logics of exclusion and inclusion that characterize different relations to otherness. Analysing disobedience, anxiety, and a variety of forms of violence, trauma and witnessing, Radical Sociality explores the possibilities and vicissitudes of contemporary forms of belonging and the limits and challenges of democracy. "--

In Relationship Thinking, N. J. Enfield outlines a framework for analyzing social interaction and its linguistic, cultural, and cognitive underpinnings, by putting human relationships front and center. It is a naturalistic approach to human sociality, grounded in the systematic study of real-time data from social interaction in everyday life. Many of the illustrative examples and analyses in the book come from the author's long-term field work in Laos.

AbstractThe article critically reviews concepts and uses of the term altruism in relation to the emergence of the capitalist welfare state. It argues that altruism may be regarded as a fetishized representation of 'sociality' and that notions of altruism tend to obscure or distort understandings of the essential social interdependence that characterises humanity as a species. The article reaches back to anthropological evidence, to religious and philosophical influences, and to insights from scientific inquiry and it makes a case for a humanistic switch in perspective within the study of social policy.

Introduction: educating masculinity & heteronormativity -- Going to college: meetings & methods -- Geographies of life: work, space, & relations -- Myths of community: materialist practices and student subjectivities -- Sexuality in education: the university's marital pushes and programs -- "Lets bang!": heteronormativity & the divide of sociality/sexuality -- Conclusion: sociality in education as a form of pedagogic becoming

AbstractThe rural-migrant protagonist in Knut Hamsun's Hunger (1890; Sult) fails to adapt to the urban environment because the moral algorithm that informs his collaborative choices is unfit for the city. He often responds poorly when overwhelmed by pride, shame, or other sensations that he struggles to make sense of. Such emotions are hypothesized to be neuro­computational adaptations crafted by natural selection to help us get ahead as collabora­tors. But with societal transformation, these feelings can become a poor match for a new reality. Reprogramming oneself can be challenging; Hunger's protagonist must suffer months of emotional and physical pain before he adapts. His journey, and Hamsun's mod­ernist project, can be illuminated by recent research on status management and morality as cooperation. As literature, Hunger could fulfill several adaptive functions by mapping mor­als for urban pro-sociality at a time of great disruption. Similar moral adaptation could become necessary in our present era, too.

This article asks whether a crisis of intimacy exists in the digital era to provoke an enquiry into the extent to which social media are transforming or transformed by personal relationships. I address the nature of late modern intimacy through the lens of 'friendship' and consider why Facebook embraces this affiliation. I then ask whether contemporary forms of public intimacy pre-date or are configured by social media. Software-centred approaches including algorithmically engineered friendship are considered to cast light on public intimacy, privacy and trust. The implications of cross-cultural ethnographic research by Miller et al. are then considered to highlight user agency. Messaging apps such as WhatsApp have the potential to liberate certain users by controlling group size and degree of privacy, as 'scalable sociality' in a polymedia environment. I conclude by arguing for a synthesis of political economic perspectives and cross-cultural studies to emphasise user agency in future research.