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 LashPART ONE: TECHNOLOGICAL SPACEGrowth and Failure - Richard SennettThe New Political Economy and Its CultureSimulated Sovereignty, Telematic Territoriality - Timothy W LukeThe Political Economy of CyberspaceDigital Networks and Power - Saskia SassenPART TWO: CULTURAL MAPPINGThe Postmodern Urban Condition - Michael Dear and Steven FlustyRoaming the City - Hilary RadnerProper Women in Improper PlacesPART THREE: REFLEXIVE SPACENot All That Is Solid Melts into Air - Heidrun Friese and Peter WagnerModernity and ContingencyMoving Culture - Ron EyermanRadiated Identities - Barbara AdamIn Pursuit of the Temporal Complexity of Conceptual Cultural PracticesPART FOUR: CARTOGRAPHIES OF A NATIONTriumphalist Geographies - Michael J ShapiroThe Anti-Reflexivist Revolution - G[um]oran DahlOn the Affirmationism of the New RightPART FIVE: TRANSCULTURAL PLACETransculturality - Wolfgang WelschThe Puzzling Form of Cultures TodayTowards a Multicultural Conception of Human Rights - Boaventura de Sousa SantosThe Hybridization of Roots and the Abhorrence of the Bush - Jonathan FriedmanNarrating the Postcolonial - Couze Venn