Spaces of Culture

Professor Scott Lash is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, as well as a a project leader in the Goldsmiths Media Research Programme. He is a leading name within sociology and cultural studies, has written numerous books and articles over the last twenty years, and is currently the managing editor for the journal Theory, Culture and Society.

Introduction - Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash PART ONE: TECHNOLOGICAL SPACE Growth and Failure - Richard Sennett The New Political Economy and Its Culture Simulated Sovereignty, Telematic Territoriality - Timothy W Luke The Political Economy of Cyberspace Digital Networks and Power - Saskia Sassen PART TWO: CULTURAL MAPPING The Postmodern Urban Condition - Michael Dear and Steven Flusty Roaming the City - Hilary Radner Proper Women in Improper Places PART THREE: REFLEXIVE SPACE Not All That Is Solid Melts into Air - Heidrun Friese and Peter Wagner Modernity and Contingency Moving Culture - Ron Eyerman Radiated Identities - Barbara Adam In Pursuit of the Temporal Complexity of Conceptual Cultural Practices PART FOUR: CARTOGRAPHIES OF A NATION Triumphalist Geographies - Michael J Shapiro The Anti-Reflexivist Revolution - G[um]oran Dahl On the Affirmationism of the New Right PART FIVE: TRANSCULTURAL PLACE Transculturality - Wolfgang Welsch The Puzzling Form of Cultures Today Towards a Multicultural Conception of Human Rights - Boaventura de Sousa Santos The Hybridization of Roots and the Abhorrence of the Bush - Jonathan Friedman Narrating the Postcolonial - Couze Venn