Critical Luxury Studies

John Armitage is Emeritus Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. John’s research interests include luxury and visual culture, new media art, continental philosophy, and the critical theory of technology. He is the author of Luxury and Visual Culture (2020) and Luxury Philosophy (2025). Joanne Roberts is Professor in Arts and Cultural Management and Director of the Winchester Luxury Research Group at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Her research interests include knowledge, innovation, creativity, and luxury. Her latest book is A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Knowledge Management (Sage Publications, 2015). She is an Editorial Advisory Board member of Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption (Taylor & Francis).

• List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Series Editors’ Preface; Notes on Contributors; Critical Luxury Studies: Defining a Field, John Armitage and Joanne Roberts; Knowing Luxury: From Socio-Cultural Value to Market Price?, Joanne Roberts and John Armitage; Luxury: A Dialectic of Desire?, Christopher J. Berry; The Luxury Duality: From Economic Fact to Cultural Capital, Ulrich Lehmann; ‘Life’s Little Luxuries?’: The Social and Spatial Construction of Luxury, Juliana Mansvelt, Mary Breheny and Iain Hay; The Object and Art of Luxury Consumption, Mike Featherstone; Experiments in Suchness: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Silk Shiki for Hermès,Thomaï Serdari; Libeskind in Las Vegas: Reflections on Architecture as a Luxury Commodity, Adam Sharr; Sartorial Connoisseurship: The T-Shirt and the Interrogation of Luxury, Jonathan Faiers; Online Luxury: Geographies of Production and Consumption and the Louis Vuitton Website, Agnès Rocamora; Index.

A collection of extremely high quality papers, which is interesting and provocative throughout, and exemplary in its commitment to the inter-disciplinary study of everything luxurious.