Scott Lash is a professor of sociology and cultural studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Lash obtained a BSc in Psychology from the University of Michigan, an MA in Sociology from Northwestern University, and a PhD from the London School of Economics. Lash began his teaching career as a lecturer at Lancaster University and became a professor in 1993. He moved to London in 1998 to take up his present post as Director for the Centre for Cultural Studies and Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College. Lash's work has been influential in sociology and cultural studies, he has been interviewed by numerous media outlets and other academics, including the BBC Radio's Essay and in Design and Culture. He has been an editor of the journal Theory, Culture and Society since 1989. His work with co-author John Urry has received a great deal of attention in cultural geography and Gibson Burrell stated their work "their book was a huge achievement in the ‘assemblage’ of material, and 25 years of ‘events’ have not been too unkind to it." His works have been translated to 15 languages, and he has directed research projects in the domain of technology and media since 1996.
China Constructing Capitalism: Economic Life and Urban Change", London: Routledge, 2014.
Experience: New Foundations for the Human Sciences, Cambridge: Polity, 2018.
Articles
“Communicative Rationality and Desire”. 61. New York: Telos Press.
"Being after Time", in S. Lash and A. Quick Time and Value, Oxford: Blackwell, 1998, pp. 147–161. And in Cultural Values, vol. 2, nos. 2-3, June 1998, 304-318.
"The Consequences of Reflexivity: Towards a Theory of the Object", in J. Philip Reflexivity and Culture.
"Risk Culture", in Barbara Adam, Ulrich Beck and Joost Van Loon The Risk Society and Beyond, London: Sage 2000, pp. 47–62..
"Informationkritik", Revista Critique des Ciencias Sociales, vol. 22., no,3.
"Technological Forms of Life", Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 18, no.1, 2001.
"From Accumulation to Circulation: Young British Art and the Culture Society", in Arturo Rodriguez Morato, The Culture Society, Barcelona, 2002..
"New Media: From Creativity to Consultancy", Environment and Planning A, vol. 22, Nov. 2002..
"Understanding New Media Objects: From Content to Connectivity", in S. Woolgar The Virtual Society?, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002..
"Lebenssoziologie: Georg Simmel in the Information Age", Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 22, no. 3, 2005, 1-23.
"Power after Hegemony: Cultural Studies in Mutation?", Theory, Culture, and Society, 24, 2007 :55-78.
"In Praise of the A Posteriori: Sociology and the Empirical", "European Journal of Social Theory", vol. 12, no.1, 2009, 175-87.
"Deforming the Figure: Topology and the Social imaginary", "Theory, Culture & Society", vol. 29, nos. 4-5, 2012, 261-287.
"Morality and Solidarity: China's Relational Economy", in J. Koltan Solidarity and the Crisis of Trust, Gdansk: European Solidarity Centre, 2016, pp. 121–132.
