Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of ThingsISBN: 978-0-7456-2482-2
Hardcover
248 pages
April 2007, Polity
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“Their empirical work is thorough and detailed, with each
chapter providing a rich description of the history, life, and
geography of the cultural object in question.”
British Journal of Sociology
“Scott Lash and Celia Lury reconceptualize our
understanding of cultural industries in the context of
globalization. By analysing and documenting the shift from
representation to objects in contemporary production of meaning,
they open new avenues for research on communication and culture:
things materialize our imaginary, we communicate through objects.
This pathbreaking study will stimulate the intellectual debate for
years to come.”
Manuel Castells, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles
“Scott Lash and Celia Lury throw down the gauntlet to
liberal and Marxist economic and cultural theory. They discover
meaning-making at the centre of both production and consumption.
Totems rule the marketplace, and popular culture generates,
displaces and energizes iconic brands. The circulation of economic
value has become a conversation between symbolic things. Deeply
researched and theoretically sophisticated, Global Culture Industry
is an important book.”
Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University
“By tracing the lives of a series of cultural objects,
Lash and Lury analyse with great insight how, in our age of
globalization, culture comes to play an ever more central and
intense role in economic production. In the process, they revise
powerfully our traditional notions of the culture
industry.”
Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire and Multitude