Great to see you co-chairing a 4S conference, Kean! Cheers!
I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation
Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".
Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!
Deadline: 2nd February 2026
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I’m happy to share that my book “Traders, Speculators and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India,” published by @harvardpress.bsky.social is out!
We are now LIVE with From Walkman to Polycrisis @ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c... and www.youtube.com/@CulturalEco... and that other place with all the Wrapping @allartmarkets.bsky.social @tgpb.bsky.social @philiproscoe.bsky.social @addiemcgowan.bsky.social & Simone Pollilo
New article! "Tokenization of everything? Exploring the limits of blockchain technologies in the governance of financial markets and assets" led by Anetta Proskurovska
If you want to learn about #tokenization in #finance & #financialmarkets then check it out
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History, edited by our very own Aviezer Tucker and David Černín, has been out for a month now. Here it is in the flesh, next to books of our recent visiting scholar. Get it (for your libraries)! More info: shorturl.at/BjNLi
Finally managed to turn this into a real blog post: Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS?
Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to?
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The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.
A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
Together with his family, his cherished colleagues, many friends, admiring readers, and grateful students, we mourn the loss of Michel Callon, who passed away on July 28th. He was one of the intellectual giants of our era. See this insightful interview sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...
I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology
#STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation
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Great to see these ideas now in an article. Congrats, Kean!
New #Postdoctoral Job! I'm recruiting for multi-country project on research #metadata & evaluation - UK, Germany, France, and Canada. Funded by SSHRC under Open Research Area 8 initiative. More info: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-...
#research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics
Environment and History 31.2 is available online now! This is a special issue entitled 'Sensing the World: Exploring Sensory Histories of the Environment,' edited by @gpetrick.bsky.social & @gfitz.bsky.social liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/31/2 #envhist @eseh.bsky.social
📚✨ New paper alert: Derisking as Worldmaking
→ Why finance is a worldmaking force
→ Why derisking undermines itself
→ Why we need a Smart Green State instead
Full article: "Derisking as Worldmaking: Climate Finance and the Politics of Uncertainty" (in RIPE)
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Thanks!
I enjoyed reading this @policysciences.bsky.social article by @dc-a.bsky.social & García. It identifies challenges for Peru's street-level bureaucrats in poverty policy implementation, such as unclear eligibility & poverty definitions inconsistent with reality. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Muchas gracias, Andrea!
The article advocates for a study of data production that accounts for contexts where the dominant feature is institutional and material precarity. In our case, we found actors attempting to maintain a delicate balance between inadequate legal rules, scarce resources, and sociopolitical demands. 4/4
2) Mundane creativity: given the rigidity of the system, bureaucrats had to use rule-bending tactics and find workarounds in their quotidian tasks to keep producing data. In other words, paradoxically, they had to routinely subvert the rules of the system to make it work for their local reality. 3/4
We found 2 dynamics among bureaucrats. 1) Algorithmic alienation: when they did not see a correlation between their perception of local poverty and the system's economic classifications, they felt a sense of powerlessness and meaninglessness in relation to working for an opaque automated system. 2/4
🚨New publication (w/ L. Garcia): Our article explores the daily labor of Peruvian street-level bureaucrats in charge of translating people's sociomaterial conditions into data for a system that provides automated economic classifications to access social welfare services. doi.org/10.1007/s110... 1/4
Call for papers: @4sweb.bsky.social 4S Open Panel on "Assetization through time and space" organized by myself, Jane Bjørn Vedel, Susi Geiger, & Jacob Hellman
#STS #sociology #anthropology #politicaleconomy #assetization
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"In this innovative book, historian and anthropologist Kevin Donovan analyses the contradictions of economic sovereignty and citizenship in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, placing money, credit, and smuggling at the center of the region's shifting fortunes." doi.org/10.1017/9781...
"How discounted cash flow became the natural way of responding to our collective problems" - José Ossandón interviews Liliana Doganova @delaeconomia.bsky.social estudiosdelaeconomia.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/h...
Sitting above this is that Sam Altman has hundreds of millions of dollars of credit lines that he pulls on from JP Morgan that he then puts into companies that do business with OpenAI. Yet another mark in the "everything with this is completely sane" column.
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Yeah I need way more money than anyone ever got before. I need it because my shit is difficult right now. But it's important in ways even I haven't been able to work out. OpenAI is a serious business. Help me. Please help me please my serious company is so good. Help me
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I adapted some work I’ve been doing on Keynes & time into a long-form essay for @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook!
“Are We All Dead in the Long Run?”
Why we have misunderstood Keynes’s quip about the long run and what it opens up instead
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You probably know the story of the Chicago Boys in Chile under Pinochet. But neoliberalism has a longer history in Latin America. We invited HPE Project grantees César Castillo-García, Matilde Ciolli, and @antonio-galindo.bsky.social to a roundtable to discuss: www.hpeproject.org/blog/new-lat...
Have to finish setting this up later but for now: new publication! Using the Birmingham School's subcultural theory to look at political compass memes, we attempt to theorize how "digital political subcultures" are refashioning political subjectivity www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
