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Scott Lash
Researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London
Publications - 85
Citations - 18240
Scott Lash is an academic researcher from Goldsmiths, University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Modernity & Reflexivity. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 82 publications receiving 18066 citations. Previous affiliations of Scott Lash include University of London & London Metropolitan University.
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Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order
TL;DR: In this paper, three prominent social thinkers discuss the implications of "reflexive modernization" for social and cultural theory today, and the three authors offer critical appraisals of each other's viewpoints.
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Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity.
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Economies of signs and space
Scott Lash,John Urry +1 more
TL;DR: Lash and Urry as discussed by 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 fl[ci]aneurs - are mobile over ever greater distances at ever greater speeds.
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The End of Organized Capitalism
TL;DR: The End of Organized Capitalism as mentioned in this paper argues that despite Marx s and Weber s insistence that capitalist societies become increasingly more ordered, we now live in an era of disorganized capitalism, and argues that there is a movement toward a deconcentration of capital within nation-states; toward the increased separation of banks, industry and the state; and toward the redistribution of productive relations and class-relevant residential patterns.
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The end of organized capitalism
Scott Lash,John Urry +1 more
TL;DR: The End of Organized Capitalism as discussed by the authors argues that despite Marx s and Weber s insistence that capitalist societies become increasingly more ordered, we now live in an era of disorganized capitalism, and argues that there is a movement toward a deconcentration of capital within nation-states; toward the increased separation of banks, industry and the state; and toward the redistribution of productive relations and class-relevant residential patterns.