Book launch: Currency of nihilism. City St George’s, University of London, 30 October 2026, 18.15–19.45. Amin Samman will be launching his new book, Currency of Nihilism, in London this October at CITYPERC. Sandy Hager will chair and Giulia Dal Maso will act as discussant. What happens to economic life when …
Mini-conference: Technofinancial capital. Glasgow SASE 2027, 30 June to 3 July 2027. Colleagues are organizing a mini-conference on the theme of technofinancial capital in Glasgow next year as part of SASE 2027. This mini conference focuses on the financing of novel technologies that are explicitly disruptive in their mandates. In …
Book launch: The moralizing corporation. Stewart House, Royal Holloway London Graduate School, 24 November 2026, 18.00-20.00. A new edited collection, The Moralizing Corporation: The Rise and Fall of Corporate Carewashing, will be launched in London this November. The editors and several contributors will be present for a panel discussion followed by …
Embedded Digital Money: The Social Unfolding of Bitcoin. Ilan Talmud, Edward Elgar 2026. This enlightening book traces Bitcoin’s journey from a novel post-2008 crisis experiment to a redefining powerhouse of the financial world. Ilan Talmud reveals the communities, visionaries, investors, regulators and big banks behind this ever-shifting currency, which has …
FinTech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance. Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, Zone Books 2026. How people pay, make savings and investments, buy insurance, and take on debt is undergoing digital transformation across the globe. This book argues that FinTech is a distinct form of intermediary and …
The Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st-Century Fascism. Max Haiven, MIT Press 2026. In an age when capitalism feels like an unwinnable game, extreme reactionary ideas and politics are on the rise. The Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, Squid Game, and much of reality TV are cultural reflections …
Corporate Capitalism in the Era of Financialization and Intangible Capital: Value Forms Beyond Fixity. Tansel Güçlü, De Gruyter Brill 2026. This book investigates the transformation of corporate capitalism under conditions of financialization and the rising centrality of intangible capital. It challenges conventional distinctions between financial and non-financial activity by tracing …
Women, money and markets, 1770–1914: Representing the invisible hands of the economy. Edited by Emma Newport and Joyce Goggin, Boydell Press 2026. This collection redefines the role of women in the development of modern capitalism, revealing their active participation as investors, entrepreneurs, theorists, and cultural producers between 1770 and 1914. …
Colleagues at Goethe University Frankfurt are recruiting a PhD student to work on a funded research project (Financial Empire: China’s Construction of an Alternative Financial System). The successful applicant will work as part of a team that examines the transformation of global financial structures in the context of increasing geopolitical …
Money and violence. Friends House, London, UK, 17 September 2026. Christopher Harker and Sebastian Paredes Smith are organising a one-day conference on money and violence in London. This one day, in-person only conference brings together scholars from across the social sciences to interrogate how monetary forms, institutions and imaginaries are implicated …
