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<br>Dear all,
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<br>Some of you may be interested in this call for papers for a 4S Open
<br>Panel in Sydney this year that I'm organizing.
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<br>*Open Panel: Turning (More) Things into Assets: Techno-economic
<br>TRANSformations*
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<br>Organizer: Kean Birch
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<br>What is an asset? How is something made into an asset? How is the
<br>boundary of an asset defined? What is the role of technoscience in this
<br>transformation? Assets can include things like intellectual property,
<br>land and natural resources, personality, emissions, infrastructure, etc.
<br>More and more STS scholars (and others) are puzzling over the specific
<br>techno-economic transformations entailed in the creation of an asset
<br>(e.g. Birch 2017a, 2017b; Birch & Tyfield 2013; Cooper & Waldby 2014;
<br>Muniesa 2014; Lezaun & Montgomery 2015; Doganova and Karnoe 2015;
<br>Doganova and Muniesa 2015; Martin 2015; Chiapello 2015; Boltanski &
<br>Esquerre 2016; Gardner & Webster 2017; Hogarth 2017; Muniesa et al.
<br>2017; Vezyridis & Timmons 2017; Birch & Muniesa submission). Such work
<br>has stimulated an important debate on the importance of the asset form
<br>and assetization process in understanding an array of emerging phenomena
<br>in contemporary, technoscientific capitalism. They raise questions about
<br>the techno-economic implications of socio-technical platforms (e.g.
<br>Uber, Airbnb), digital business models (e.g. Google, Facebook),
<br>innovation financing and their financial logics (e.g. Silicon Valley
<br>‘unicorns’), emerging accumulation strategies based on forms of
<br>‘rentiership’ rather than entrepreneurship, and so on. The aim of this
<br>panel is to contribute to this ongoing research agenda by (1) inviting
<br>further case studies of assetization and (2) focusing on the specific
<br>techno-economic transformations involved in the turning of things into
<br>assets. It has a further aim to consider the implications of the asset
<br>form and assetization process for our the future of contemporary,
<br>technoscientific capitalism.
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<br>Here's a PDF:
<br>https://www.academia.edu/35023421/Open_Panel_Proposal_4S_2018_Turning_More_Things_into_Assets_Techno-economic_TRANSformations
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<br>Please forward to anyone else you think might be interested.
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<br>Thanks,
<br>
<br>Kean
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<br>keanbirch@gmail.com
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