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Dr Celia Lury
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Dr Celia Lury Centre for Cultural Studies Goldsmiths College Laurie Grove Baths New Cross London SE14 6NW UK +44 (0)171 919 7982 c.lury@goldsmiths.ac.uk
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Celia Lury (Silicon Alleys: Networks of Virtual Objects)
is a lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College. She is currently
involved in two ESRC-funded team projects, 'The global biography of cultural
products' and 'Silicon alleys and virtual objects'. In both she is
especially interested in the changing relationship between the image and
the object as part of her ongoing interests in visual culture and the
commodity character of contemporary culture. In both these respects, she is
especially interested in the importance of time, memory and duration to
perceptions of the object. Lury is currently working on a book on brands in
which she will explore some of these issues. One issue here is whether and
how brands might be said to contribute to a virtual global economy. In addition, she is interested in developing the notion of a visual sociology: working out what this would mean in epistemological and methodological terms. So, for example, she is beginning to explore the ways in which imagistic description and images, both still and moving, can be understood not simply as illustrative, but also as concepts. In developing this view she is drawing on the revival of constructivism which George Marcus amongst others argues is frequently a part of multi-sited ethnography. In relation to objects, such an approach would seem to have enormous potential because so much of people's use of many objects is non-verbal: it is bodily, habitual, tacit. |
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