Journal of Cultural Economy

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

What?

Economic emergencies: exception, government and the management of the economy What is an economic emergency, and what are its contemporary legal, discursive, political, and institutional implications for emergency management? We identify and critically discuss two main stran...

And then...

2) "Economic emergencies: exception, government and the management of the economy" by Egor Makarov and Simone Polillo - a useful conceptual map of Foucauldian and Schmittian approaches to emergency and exception.

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Undoing cultural studies: cultural economy at the Open University (1979–1997) This introduction article establishes the territory for the Symposium What Was Cultural Economy? After setting out the reasoning behind the collection and its eight contributions, the introduction ...

We chat about two papers:

1) "Undoing Cultural Studies: Cultural Economy at the Open University (1979-1997)" - a part-history of "workshopping" at the OU, associated with Stuart Hall and Doreen Massey (who I refer to as Jamesonian "vanishing mediators").
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From the emergence of cultural economy to the culture of economic emergency, via bulletproof coffee, muffins and anchovies... Hey look - it's your new favourite academic podcast.

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

The first episode, impeccably hosted by @philiproscoe.bsky.social & @addiemcgowan.bsky.social featuring @tgpb.bsky.social @allartmarkets.bsky.social & Simone Pollilo, goes live tomorrow. We expect you'll all be featuring in your 2026 Wrapped. www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...

Building a local currency: elaborating, maintaining, and redirecting values through tensions By documenting the lifecycle of a French local currency project, we explore the elaboration, maintenance, and rearrangement of values and the role played by tensions in such a process. We draw from...

OUT TODAY Building a local currency: elaborating, maintaining, and redirecting values through tensions 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗣𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗼, 𝗝𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝘆 𝗔𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀, 𝗘𝗱𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 @edgranter.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Moral frameworks of commercial surrogacy in Georgia Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Tbilisi, Georgia, this article explores moral code-switching in the Georgian surrogacy industry, showing how surrogate mothers and intended parents switch betwe...

NEW: Moral frameworks of commercial surrogacy in Georgia - Ketevan Gurchiani www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium This article takes enchantment as a category of analysis to histories of national economies. Taking the economic history of twentieth-century Belgium as a case study, it argues that attention for e...

NEW: Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium - @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Articulating value(s): problematizing financial moralities in impact investments This article examines economic moralities at play in financial capitalism by investigating the interplay of ‘value’ – in the form of capital earmarked as ‘impact’ investment – and ‘values’, that is...

NEW: Articulating value(s): problematizing financial moralities in impact investments - Claudia Campisano www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The legal dematerialization of enchantment: prizes, brands and the magical economics of something-for-nothing This article brings together cultural studies and legal history to address a particular mode of historical enchantment, namely, the economic magic of something-for-nothing. Considered within the ea...

NEW: The legal dematerialization of enchantment: prizes, brands and the magical economics of something-for-nothing - Anat Rosenberg www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry This article examines how influencer marketing companies and their algorithmic tools define and measure ‘influence' in Latin America. Drawing on Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot's ‘orders of wort...

New! (Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry @arturoarriagada.bsky.social & @mvaldeb.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW PUBLICATION:

Digital Eating special issue co-edited with @jeremybrice.bsky.social and Karin Eli in @jcultecon.bsky.social

The special issue examines how digitalisation is transforming the conditions under which eating is organised, valued, and contested in everyday life,

Thrilled to see this article with Arturo Arriagada out now. If you’re interested in how the influencer industry works in Chile, have a read :)

O.K. @jcultecon.bsky.social rss.com/podcasts/cul...

Building a local currency: elaborating, maintaining, and redirecting values through tensions By documenting the lifecycle of a French local currency project, we explore the elaboration, maintenance, and rearrangement of values and the role played by tensions in such a process. We draw from...

OUT TODAY Building a local currency: elaborating, maintaining, and redirecting values through tensions 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗣𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗼, 𝗝𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝘆 𝗔𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀, 𝗘𝗱𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 @edgranter.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now available to pre-subscribe in fervent anticipation.

Insert 'agential cuts' gag here...

don't give @philiproscoe.bsky.social any more ideas (we hear he's made his own knife so)

we weren't joking www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...

This is what Cultural Economy in the kitchen, a new podcast series cooked up (sorry) by @philiproscoe.bsky.social & @addiemcgowan.bsky.social looks like. Episode 1 features @tgpb.bsky.social & @allartmarkets.bsky.social waxing nostalgic before getting into Economic Emergencies with Simone Polillo

still naming your naval patrol ships WBYeats, James Joyce and George Bernard Shaw is bold [very Mac unfraidhy] on.ft.com/4oUYBKp

Moral frameworks of commercial surrogacy in Georgia Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Tbilisi, Georgia, this article explores moral code-switching in the Georgian surrogacy industry, showing how surrogate mothers and intended parents switch betwe...

NEW: Moral frameworks of commercial surrogacy in Georgia - Ketevan Gurchiani www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium This article takes enchantment as a category of analysis to histories of national economies. Taking the economic history of twentieth-century Belgium as a case study, it argues that attention for e...

NEW: Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium - @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Articulating value(s): problematizing financial moralities in impact investments This article examines economic moralities at play in financial capitalism by investigating the interplay of ‘value’ – in the form of capital earmarked as ‘impact’ investment – and ‘values’, that is...

NEW: Articulating value(s): problematizing financial moralities in impact investments - Claudia Campisano www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The legal dematerialization of enchantment: prizes, brands and the magical economics of something-for-nothing This article brings together cultural studies and legal history to address a particular mode of historical enchantment, namely, the economic magic of something-for-nothing. Considered within the ea...

NEW: The legal dematerialization of enchantment: prizes, brands and the magical economics of something-for-nothing - Anat Rosenberg www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry This article examines how influencer marketing companies and their algorithmic tools define and measure ‘influence' in Latin America. Drawing on Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot's ‘orders of wort...

New! (Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry @arturoarriagada.bsky.social & @mvaldeb.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

YouTube video by ARTE Le troc, la première forme de monnaie ? | Est-il vrai que...? | ARTE

Bill Maurer inside!!! "Le troc, la première forme de monnaie ? | Est-il vrai que...? | ARTE" @artefr.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBFj...

Protecting the Family: A few more notes on “the new Taylorism” On my birthday this year (kind of a big one too!), Taylor Swift swooped in and stole my thunder with yet another album. Adding insult to injury, my university PR team then asked if I might write so…

Is Taylor Swift the new FW Taylor? No. She's the new Jonathan Swift, which is worse. Here's why only Veblen can help us.

I reviewed the latest album in order to get it out of my system.
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