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Economies of Signs and Space

By Scott Lash , John Urry

Book information

Publisher
Sage Publications
Year
1994
ISBN
0803984723, 9780803984721, 9780585356945
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
5 MB (4781913 bytes)
Series
Theory, Culture & Society
Edition
1st
Pages
368\186
Topic
Economy
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This is a novel account of social change that supplants conventional understandings of 'society' and presents a sociology that takes as its main unit of analysis flows through time and across space. Developing a comparative analysis of the UK and US, the new Germany and Japan, Lash and Urry show how restructuration after organized capitalism has its basis in increasingly reflexive social actors and organizations. The consequence is not only the much-vaunted 'postmodern condition' but also a growth in reflexivity. In exploring this new reflexive world, the authors argue that today's economies are increasingly ones of signs — information, symbols, images, desire — and of space, where both signs and social subjects — refugees, financiers, tourists and flaneurs — are mobile over ever greater distances at ever greater speeds.

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