Lury, Celia. 2009. Brands as assemblages: assembling culture. Journal of Cultural Economy, 2(1-2), pp. 67-82. ISSN 1753-0350 [Article]

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This paper draws out the continuities between understandings of mass product as developed in the Frankfurt school with contemporary understandings of assemblage by way of an investigation of the brand. Drawing on recent developments in mathematics, it argues that the space of the assemblage is a space that is simultaneously mapped and brought into being in a logic of complex topological functionalities. It proposes that it is the implementation of the rationality of this new logic of space - and the emergence of abstract, 'optimizing' objects such as brands - that is captured in the notion of assemblage.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350903064022
Keywords:	brands; assemblage; Kracauer; topology; surface; value
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology
Dates:	Date Event 2009 Published
Item ID:	2774
Date Deposited:	23 Apr 2010 07:24
Last Modified:	07 Dec 2012 12:52
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/2774

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