Scott Lash

Scott Lash (born December 23, 1945)^[1] is a professor of sociology and cultural studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Lash obtained a BSc in Psychology from the University of Michigan, an MA in Sociology from Northwestern University, and a PhD from the London School of Economics (1980). Lash began his teaching career as a lecturer at Lancaster University and became a professor in 1993. He moved to London in 1998 to take up his present post as Director for the Centre for Cultural Studies and Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College.^[2]

Lash's work has been influential in sociology and cultural studies, he has been interviewed by numerous media outlets and other academics, including the BBC Radio's Essay and in Design and Culture.^[3][4] He has been an editor of the journal Theory, Culture and Society since 1989.^[2] His work with co-author John Urry has received a great deal of attention in cultural geography and Gibson Burrell stated their work "their book (The End of Organised Capitalism) was a huge achievement in the ‘assemblage’ of material, and 25 years of ‘events’ have not been too unkind to it."^[5] His works have been translated to 15 languages, and he has directed research projects in the domain of technology and media since 1996.^[6]

Publications

Books

• The Militant Worker, Class and Radicalism in France and America, London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1984.
• The End of Organized Capitalism, Cambridge: Polity Books, 1987. Co-authored with John Urry.
• Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity, London: Allen and Unwin, 1987 (Co-edited with Sam Whimster).
• Sociology of Postmodernism, London: Routledge, 1990.
• Post-Structuralist and Postmodernist Sociology, Sussex, Edward Elgar, 1991 (edited)
• Modernity and Identity, Oxford: Blackwell, 1992 (co-edited with Jonathan Friedman)
• Economies of Signs and Space, London: TCS/Sage 1994. (co-author is J Urry).
• Reflexive Modernization, Cambridge: Polity Press 1994.
• Global Modernities, London: TCS/Sage, 1995 (co-ed. with M. Featherstone and R. Robertson)
• De-Traditionalization, Oxford: Blackwell, 1996 (co-ed. with P. Heelas and P. Morris)
• Risk, Environment and Modernity, London: Sage (TCS), 1996 (co-ed. with B. Szerszynski and B. Wynne )
• Time and Value, Oxford: Blackwell, 1998 (co-ed. with Andrew Quick and Richard Roberts)
• Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World, London: Sage 1999 (co-ed. with M. Featherstone)
• Another Modernity, A Different Rationality, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
• Critique of Information, London: Sage, 2002. (trans. Spanish, Japanese, Chinese)
• Recognition and Difference: Politics, Identity, Multiculture (co-ed. with M. Featherstone) London: Sage, 2002.
• Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things, Cambridge: Polity (2007). Co-author is C. Lury.
• Intensive Culture: Social Theory, Religion & Contemporary Capitalism", London: Sage 2010.
• China Constructing Capitalism: Economic Life and Urban Change", London: Routledge, 2014 (co-authors M. Keith, J. Arnoldi, T. Rooker).

Articles

• “Communicative Rationality and Desire”. Telos 61 (Fall 1984). New York: Telos Press.
• "Being after Time", in S. Lash and A. Quick (eds.) Time and Value, Oxford: Blackwell, 1998, pp. 147–161. And in Cultural Values, vol. 2, nos. 2-3, June 1998, 304-318.
• "The Consequences of Reflexivity: Towards a Theory of the Object", in J. Philip (ed.) Reflexivity and Culture (London, Pluto, 1998).
• "Risk Culture", in Barbara Adam, Ulrich Beck and Joost Van Loon (eds.) The Risk Society and Beyond, London: Sage 2000, pp. 47–62. ISBN 0-7619-6468-1.
• "Informationkritik", Revista Critique des Ciencias Sociales, vol. 22., no,3.
• "Technological Forms of Life", Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 18, no.1, 2001.
• "Recognition or Difference", Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 18, no. 6, 2001.
• "From Accumulation to Circulation: Young British Art and the Culture Society", in Arturo Rodriguez Morato, The Culture Society, Barcelona, 2002.. (co-author is John Myles)
• "New Media: From Creativity to Consultancy", Environment and Planning A, vol. 22, Nov. 2002. (with Andreas Wittel).
• "Understanding New Media Objects: From Content to Connectivity", in S. Woolgar (ed.) The Virtual Society?, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. (with C. Lury and A. Wittel).
• "Lebenssoziologie: Georg Simmel in the Information Age", Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 22, no. 3, 2005, 1-23.
• "Power after Hegemony: Cultural Studies in Mutation?", Theory, Culture, and Society, 24(3), 2007 :55-78.
• "In Praise of the A Posteriori: Sociology and the Empirical", "European Journal of Social Theory", vol. 12, no.1, 2009, 175-87.
• "Deforming the Figure: Topology and the Social imaginary", "Theory, Culture & Society", vol. 29, nos. 4-5, 2012, 261-287.

See also

• Reflexive modernization
• Late modernity

References

External links

• Virtual Society on Scott Lash
• Lecture (Video/Audio): De-Globalization and the Crisis of Ontology