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  • Paranoid Finance

    by Fabian Muniesa ...
    Series series Theory Redux
    There is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be inescapable. At the core of financial imagination lies a notion of value – of ‘value creation’ – that is loaded with trouble. This is the trouble of a fragile metaphor: a metaphor of fecund money and future return, of true value and false value, of true value that should be protected from the perils of dilapidation, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Provoked Economy

    Economic Reality and the Performative Turn

    by Fabian Muniesa ...
    Series series CRESC
    Do things such as performance indicators, valuation formulas, consumer tests, stock prices or financial contracts represent an external reality? Or do they rather constitute, in a performative fashion, what they refer to?The Provoked Economy tackles this question from a pragmatist angle, considering economic reality as a ceaselessly provoked reality. It takes the reader through a series of diverse ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Do Economists Make Markets?

    On the Performativity of Economics

    Edited by Donald MacKenzie, Fabian Muniesa, Siu Leung-Sea ...
    Around the globe, economists affect markets by saying what markets are doing, what they should do, and what they will do. Increasingly, experimental economists are even designing real-world markets. But, despite these facts, economists are still largely thought of as scientists who merely observe markets from the outside, like astronomers look at the stars. Do Economists Make Markets? boldly ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Assetization

    Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism

    Edited by Kean Birch, Fabian Muniesa ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    How the asset--anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream--has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism.In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines argue that the asset--meaning anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream--has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism. An asset can be an object ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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    by Janet Roitman ...
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    $28.99 CAD

  • The One and the Many

    Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context

    by Grant H. Kester ...
    Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the Many, Grant H. Kester provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative art, ranging from the work of artists and groups widely celebrated in the mainstream art world, such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Superflex, Francis Alÿs, and Santiago Sierra, to the less ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Securitization of Society

    Crime, Risk, and Social Order

    by Marc Schuilenburg ...
    Translated by George Hall ...
    Series Book 12 - Alternative Criminology
    Traditionally, security has been the realm of the state and its uniformed police. However, in the last two decades, many actors and agencies, including schools, clubs, housing corporations, hospitals, shopkeepers, insurers, energy suppliers and even private citizens, have enforced some form of security, effectively changing its delivery, and overall role.In The Securitization of Society, Marc ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Economics

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by Julian Reiss ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    Philosophy of Economics: A Contemporary Introduction is the first systematic textbook in the philosophy of economics. It introduces the epistemological, metaphysical and ethical problems that arise in economics, and presents detailed discussions of the solutions that have been offered.Throughout, philosophical issues are illustrated by and analysed in the context of concrete cases drawn from ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Automatic Society, Volume 1

    The Future of Work

    Translated by Daniel Ross ...
    by Bernard Stiegler ...
    In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one key result of the so-called ‘data economy’, is leading to a drastic reduction in employment in all areas - from the legal profession to truck ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Meaning and Melancholia

    Life in the Age of Bewilderment

    by Christopher Bollas ...
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    $73.99 CAD

  • The Ecology of Attention

    by Yves Citton ...
    Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and information that dooms us to a pathological attention deficit.In this new book, cultural theorist Yves Citton goes against the tide of these standard laments to offer a new perspective on the problem of attention in the digital age. Phrases like �paying ... Read more

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  • Speculative Communities

    Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World

    by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou ...
    Speculative Communities investigates the financial world’s influence on the social imagination, unraveling its radical effects on our personal and political lives.In Speculative Communities, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou examines the ways that speculation has moved beyond financial markets to shape fundamental aspects of our social and political lives. As ordinary people make exceptional decisions, ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD