Past events
2007
Market, Economics, Culture and Performativity
Tuesday 6 March 2007
Goldsmiths
This one-day conference continued themes discussed at a 2005 Goldsmiths event, Markets, Art & Money, featuring Professors Harrison White and Donald MacKenzie. The conference was supported by Goldsmiths' Departments of Anthropology and Sociology and hosted by the Centre for Cultural Studies.
Keynote speakers: Dr. Fabian Muniesa, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Professor Philippe Steiner, IRISES, Université Paris-Dauphine, Professor Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick
In recent years new ways of understanding the market have appeared from different fields such as anthropology, cultural studies, geography, science and technology studies and sociology. In this context, the role played by knowledge in economy has been seriously rethought. This event will bring together some of the most important scholars in this movement.
Fabian Muniesa, together with Michel Callon, has developed a new anthropology of calculation, where economics and other sociotechnical devices are understood as performative frames that build increasingly complex global markets such as electronic trading.
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Philippe Steiner has reformulated traditional sociological conceptual tools, such as Durkheim and Weber's theory, in order to understand current relation between economics knowledge and society.
Nigel Thrift has widely studied the increasing relevance of the "cultural circuits of capitalism" (like management business and new age gurus) and the current role played by intensive technologies in reshaping the way commodities are currently created.