Goldsmiths - University of London

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Professor Scott Lash

Professor of Sociology | BS, MA, PhD

Research Interests

Social and cultural theory, information society, multimedia and urban studies.

Scott is currently Principal Investigator and Project Manager on a major ESRC, DTI and EPSRC project, 'Broadband: Interactive Media in a Cross-Platform Environment'. He has also recently been the Principal Investigator on an ESRC project, 'Silicon Alleys: Networks of Virtual Objects'.

Recent Publications

Books

  1. (2005) with C. Lury, Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things, Cambridge: Polity.
  2. (2002) edited with M. Featherstone, Recognition and Difference: Politics, Identity, Multiculture, London: Sage.
  3. (2002) Critique of Information, London: Sage.
  4. (1999) Another Modernity, A Different Rationality, Oxford: Blackwell.

Journal Articles

  1. (forthcoming) 'Lebenssoziologie: Georg Simmel in the Information Age', in Theory, Culture and Society.
  2. (2002) with A. Wittel, 'New Media: From Creativity to Consultancy', in Environment and Planning A, Vol. 22.
  3. (2001) 'Recognition or Difference', in Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 18, No. 6.
  4. (2001) 'Technological Forms of Life', in Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 18, No. 1.
  5. (2001) 'Informationkritik', in Revista Critique des Ciencias Sociales, Vol. 22, No,3.