Libidinal economies of contemporary capitalism, 2021. Online workshop, 15-16 April. The full workshop programme is now available here. This will be a closed event but there is limited scope for some non-presenting attendees. If you are interested in joining in this capacity, please get in touch with Amin Samman (amin.samman.1@city.ac.uk) …
The aporetic financialisation of insurance liabilities: Reserving under Solvency II. Charalampos Fytros. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2021). The valuation of insurance liabilities has traditionally been dealt with by actuaries, who closely monitored underlying illiquid features, assumed a long-term perspective, and exercised their own subjective, expert judgment. However, the new EU regulatory …
Passive nihilism and ontotheology: A reply to Husbands on derivative temporality. Austin Hayden Smidt. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2021). Conor Husbands’ defense and expansion of Elena Esposito’s temporality of finance is a much-needed intervention. However, in this response essay, I will show a few of the fundamental weaknesses of Esposito’s project, …
