Scott M Lash & John Urry 
Economies of Signs and Space [PDF ebook] 

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 fl[ci]aneurs – are mobile over ever greater distances at ever greater speeds.

Tabla de materias

Introduction

After Organized Capitalism

PART ONE: ECONOMIES OF OBJECTS AND SUBJECTS

Mobile Objects

Reflexive Subjects

PART TWO: ECONOMIES OF SIGNS AND THE OTHER

Reflexive Accumulation

Information Structures and Production Systems

Accumulating Signs

The Cultural Industries

Ungovernable Spaces

The Underclass and Impacted Ghettoes

Mobile Subjects

Migration in Comparative Perspective

PART THREE: ECONOMIES OF SPACE AND TIME

Post-Industrial Spaces

Time and Memory

PART FOUR: GLOBALIZATION AND MODERNITY

Mobility, Modernity and Place

Globalization and Localization

Conclusion

Sobre el autor

His main research in recent years has been in advocating and developing a new paradigm for the social sciences, the new mobilities paradigm