This seminar might interest some people.
cheers
Kean
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From: Allison ROVNY
Sent: 13 November 2020 05:58
To: Allison ROVNY
Subject: MaxPo seminar with Fabian Muniesa December 7th 12:00: "Assetization:
Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism"
Dear all,
You are invited to the next MaxPo SCOOPS
seminar with Fabian Muniesa of the Centre de
Sociologie de l'Innovation at Mines ParisTech on Monday, December 7th,
12:00-13:30 on Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific
Capitalism, with discussion by Vincent Lpinay, Mdialab, Sciences Po.
The seminar will take place on Zoom. *Please register at the following link*:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11HKjEpbI1h90BM3u6gLX-8ZXUS9fs6cDLaRbyM4t454/
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Abstract: In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines argue that the
assetmeaning anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a
revenue streamhas become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism. An
asset can be an object or an experience, a sum of money or a life form, a
patent or a bodily function. A process of assetization prevails, imposing
investment and return as the key rationale, and overtaking commodification and
its speculative logic. Although assets can be bought and sold, the point is to
get a durable economic rent from them rather than make a killing on the
market. Assetization examines how assets are constructed and how a variety of
things can be turned into assets, analyzing the interests, activities, skills,
organizations, and relations entangled in this process. The contributors
consider the assetization of knowledge, including patents, personal data, and
biomedical innovation; of infrastructure, including railways and energy; of
nature, including mineral deposits, agricultural seeds, and natural capital;
and of publics, including such public goods as higher education and
monetizable social ills. Taken together, the chapters show the usefulness of
assetization as an analytical tool and as an element in the critique of
capitalism. Muniesa's talk is based on the book he jointly edited with Kean
Birch, "Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific
Capitalism, published with MIT Press in 2020.
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Best regards,
Allison
Allison E. Rovny, Ph.D.
Administrative Director
MaxPo - Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market
Societies
Sciences Po, Paris, France
http://www.maxpo.eu/
allison.rovny@sciencespo.fr
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