Finance and Society

Reviving Adorno's critique of the standardization of music, our article of the week reads streaming as a turn from Fordist production to financialized platforms where music is assetized and homogenized.

By Paul N. Kullick & @johannespetry.bsky.social in @finandsoc.bsky.social

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From art form to asset: our study found popular songs are becoming more generic It’s largely down to the demands of streaming services.

Based on our recent article in @finandsoc.bsky.social, we wrote a piece for @theconversation.com titled 'from art to assets' on how music does indeed sound all the same nowadays - and the role of streaming platforms in this process 😎

Check it out!
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This will produce an extraordinary amount of waste, duplication and lack of transparency. To understand why it is crucial to understand what VC dynamics are and what their aims are. See my @finandsoc.bsky.social article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The attempt to financialize psychedelics has collided with the unruliness of these substances both as therapeutic assets and as vectors of cultural resistance. Our article of the week traces the rise and fall of commercial psychedelics.

By Sandy B. Hager in @finandsoc.bsky.social

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We bring the Frankfurt School into the Spotify age — and it was a fun one to write! 😎

'From Adorno to 50 Cent: Financialized platform capitalism, Spotify, and the culture industry in the twenty-first century' in @finandsoc.bsky.social

Check it out here:
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New issue of Finance and Society hot off the press - and an electrified annual conference!

See Vol 11, No 2 ⏭️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

And pending works by F&S heavyweights ⏭️ financeandsocietynetwork.org/wp-content/u...

Big thx @finandsoc.bsky.social for supporting means of production.

Finance & Society is the gift that keeps on giving!

Just as we've gotten home from our fabulous conference in Copenhagen – huge thanks again to all of you and the organizers! – we're delighted to announce the publication of issue 11(2)! 🎁🎉

173 pages packed with the good stuff – do check it out!

Content of the special section on Central Bank Scientization: Special section: Central bank scientization Redefining scientization: Central banks between science and politics Aurélien Goutsmedt, Francesco Sergi Not a steamroller, a 3D process: Scientization at the Bank of England Aurélien Goutsmedt, Francesco Sergi, François Claveau, Clément Fontan From technical to academic central banking: The scientization of the Banque de France Maxence Dutilleul Scientization of central bank governance: A global study of governors’ biographies, 2000–2020 Aykiz Dogan, Frédéric Lebaron Scientization: A self-critical afterthought Martin Marcussen

The special section on Central Bank Scientization in @finandsoc.bsky.social is now official out in Volume 11, Issue 2.

Read all the papers here ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Many thanks to @aminsamman.bsky.social and Nathan Coombs for their support in the editorial process.

"There is no longer any depth, no longer any subtext either. The entire history of economic life is pushed up to the surface, leaving nothing behind for it to hide. It is this profound superficiality that now rules."

What is the relation between obscenity and the financial? I take up this question in my new piece, inspired by Noam Yuran's recently published book on The Sexual Economy of Capitalism. Both should make for a titillating read!

Highlight - finally seeing @provokedeconomy.bsky.social talk about paranoid finance at this years brilliant @finandsoc.bsky.social conference 🥳

Once again a cery interesting, thought provoking and inspiring Finance and Society conference @finandsoc.bsky.social - looking forward to next year (whereever it's going to be)!
Thanks to numerous colleagues for intense discussions and critical questions!

This was indeed a very full and productive 2 days @finandsoc.bsky.social

Looking great!
Really excited for the panel I’m organising on biodiversity finance, featuring great papers by Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social , Maud Borie, Roelien van der Wel, and co-authors like Natascha van der Zwan @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social

Looking much forward to this!

This looks unbearably good – what a stellar line-up and mix of exciting topics. Can't wait!

Omg what a treat... @finandsoc.bsky.social this year just really rocking it!

So, this will be fun

Very pleased to announce the full programme for this year's Finance and Society conference, which will take place on 11-12 September at Copenhagen Business School. Registration now open to the public. Come join us!
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It's happening! My book on financial nihilism is set to be published in March next year with Stanford UP. It has been many years in the making and I look forward to seeing it in print soon. www.sup.org/books/politi...

I'm pleased to announce that my essay, When Siri Becomes a Deposit Broker, is now forthcoming in @finandsoc.bsky.social!

The most recent version is available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Picture of the article called 'The dark side of diversification: Passive finance and fossil-fuel investment'

What shapes fossil-fuel investment decisions?
What are pension funds’ climate considerations?
And how does the portfolio risk concept influence these issues?

Excited to see my paper "The dark side of diversification: Passive finance and fossil-fuel investment" published in @finandsoc.bsky.social!
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Interesting new article at @finandsoc.bsky.social on “Green De-Financialization”

It's official: "Financial nihilism runs rampant". Delighted to be interviewed for a special feature on meme coins in the July edition of the Hong Kong Economic Journal's monthly magazine.

Programme acceptance emails have gone out for the @finandsoc.bsky.social annual conference in Copenhagen. Hope to see many good colleagues there!

Manchester University Press - Clickbait capitalism Clickbait capitalism - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Clickbait capitalism by Amin Samman

Clickbait Capitalism in paperback! The volume first came out in 2023 and explores some of the cultures of desire then forming around digital technology and finance. Essential reading as the entire global economy now morphs into a gigantic digital mechanism of psychological capture and release.

The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure Cambridge Core - Finance and Accountancy - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure

Thrilled to share that the Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, has been published!

You can find all chapters open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Article: Redefining scientization: Central banks between science and politics This article introduces a new conceptual framework for examining the transformation of central banks’ activities at the intersection of science and politics. It builds on the results of the contributions gathered in this special section on the scientization of central banking, to which this article also provides an introduction. We start with an analysis of Martin Marcussen’s concept of ‘scientization’, originally formulated to describe the changes within central banks since the 2000s. After highlighting how Marcussen’s concept has raised different interpretations, we broaden our scope to examine how ‘scientization’ is applied in the wider social sciences, extending beyond the study of central banks. This brings to the fore two ideas: scientization as ‘boundary work’ (redrawing the line between ‘science’ and ‘non-science’) happening both in the public-facing (‘frontstage’) and internal (‘backstage’) activities of organizations. Finally, we suggest how these two ideas can be used to reinterpret ‘scientization’ of central banks as the emergence of central banks as ‘boundary organizations’. This reframing allows us to untangle and clarify the phenomena previously conflated under the original concept of scientization, offering a more coherent framework for ongoing research on central banks.

🎉 All the contributions to @finandsoc.bsky.social special section on the “Scientization of Central Banks” are now online!
👉 shorturl.at/Izq9r

In the intro with Francesco Sergi, we refine the concept of scientization along 3 key dimensions
🔹 Policymaking
🔹 Contributory
🔹 Legitimizing

Fantastic SI on the scientisation of central banks, coord. by by @aurelien-goutsmedt.com in @finandsoc.bsky.social.

Hey you, my central bank old timers' geeks, have a look at Marcussen' take on his seminal contribution 20y ago.

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