Economies of Signs and Space (Theory, Culture & Society)

Rok: 1994
ISBN: 9780803984721
NKP-CNB: boa001-muni.000174902
OKCZID: 110002117

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LASH, Scott. Economies of signs and space. 1st ed. London: Sage, 1994. vi, 360 s. Theory, culture & society.

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Economies of Signs and Space presents a novel account of social change which supplants conventional understandings of `society'. In this extraordinary and wide-ranging book, two eminent theorists present a sociology that takes as its main unit of analysis social and cultural flows through time and across space. Focusing on post-industrial economies, the study examines social inequality and changing experiences of time, space, culture, travel, the environment and globalization. Through a comparative analysis of the UK and US, the new Germany and Japan, Lash and Urry show how restructuration after organized capitalism has its basis in increasingly reflexive social actors and organizations. The consequence is not the much-vaunted 'postmodern condition' but a growth in reflexivity.In exploring this new reflexive world, Lash and Urry argue that today's economies are increasingly ones of signs - information, symbols, images, desire - and of space, where both signs and social subjects - refugees, financiers, tourists and fl[ci]aneurs - are mobile over ever greater distances. They show how an understanding of such flows contributes to the analysis of changes in social relations, from the organization of work to the `culture industries', from the formation of an underclass to new forms of citizenship. Taking its point of departure from the authors' influential The End of Organized Capitalism, this is a book that no one in social and cultural theory, geography and urban studies, political economy, and organization studies can afford to ignore.

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