This book is Lash's most comprehensive statement in social and
cultural theory. It is a book addressed to sociologists and
philosophers, to students of urban life, modern languages, cultural
studies and the visual arts.
Alongside the Enlightenment has emerged another modernity. This
second modernity has - in opposition to the Enlightenment
rationality of progress, order, homogeneity and cognition -
initiated a different rationality of uncertainty, transience,
experiment, and the unknowable. This second, this other modernity,
is present in notions of 'difference' and 'reflexivity' so central
to the contemporary world-view. The logic, however, of such notions
can, itself, lead to the same unhappy abstraction of the first
modernity. What is forgotten, Scott Lash argues, is the dimension
of the ground. This book consists of explorations into this ground:
as place, community, belonging, sociality, tradition, life-world;
as symbol, sensation, in the tactile character of the sign. The
book addresses the other modernity's forgotten ground.
The first and second modernities co-existed in a state of
irresolvable tension along the history of western industrial
capitalism. This is thrown into crisis, Lash argues, with the turn
of the twenty-first century emergence of the global information
culture. What are the implications of this explosion of first and
second modernities into today's technological culture? When the
previously existing third space of difference is exploded into the
general indifference of information and communication flows? How
might we lead our lives in an age in which difference - and indeed
the ground itself - become primarily a matter for memory, for
mourning?
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