Clickbait capitalism: Economies of desire in the twenty-first century. Amin Samman and Earl Gammon (eds), Manchester University Press 2023. The notion of ‘clickbait’ speaks to the intersection of money, technology, and desire, suggesting a cunning ruse to profit from unsavoury inclinations of one kind or another. Clickbait capitalism pursues the …
Money and finance seminar series: The political economy of liquidity. Online, October-December 2023. The Columbia Center for Political Economy are running a webinar series on the political economy of liquidity hosted by Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School) and Matthias Thiemann (Sciences Po). Money and finance are at once deeply imbricated …
Surveillance and capture: An exploration of computational perception. PERN Salon, 19 October 2023, 19.00 EST. The Platform Economies Research Network (PERN) will be holding the final PERN Salon for 2023 with Alexander Galloway (NYU MCC). Galloway will discuss computational perception through two different operations: surveillance and capture. Here …
Intersections of finance and society, 2023. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 14-15 September. The final programme for this year’s conference is now available here. There are limited places for those not on the programme who may wish to attend. If you would like to join the conference, please register here. With inflation …
Finance and Society, vol. 9 no. 3 (2023). The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 9, number 3, which is a special issue on ‘Volatility in finance, art, and culture’. The issue features an introductory article by guest editors Benjamin Lee and Emily Rosamond, …
