Book Review: Silicon Alley: The Rise and Fall of a New Media District
Abstract
Flanagan speaks of 'the cultivation of a gimlet eye, one fit for the making of fine distinctions, such as between the virtual and the real and between the allures of temptation and the stability a life of virtue generates' (p. 129). This is, by any standards, fine, yea virtuous, sociological craik of the most illuminating, penetrat- ing sort that should grace library and study shelves, even the odd prie-dieu, wherever serious intellectual effort, seen and unseen, 'might help this culture look better' (p. 193). Will Keenan is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Division of Politics and Sociology, Nottingham Trent University. He has published extensively on symbolic culture in, among others, Theory, Culture & Society, Body & Society, British Journal of Soci- ology, Fashion Theory, Mortality, Religion and European Journal of Social Theory. He edited Dressed to Impress: Looking the Part (Berg, 2001) and is co-editor of Materialising Religion: Expression, Performance and Ritual (Ashgate, 2006). He is a founder member of the BSA Visual Sociology Study Group. Silicon Alley: The Rise and Fall of a New Media District by Michael Indergaard New York and London: Routledge, 2004, xv + 219 pp., ISBN 0415935717 Reviewed by Andreas Wittel Time flies with