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The Institute for Technoscience and Society Seminar Series is taking place on
February 10th at 11:00am EST featuring Professor Fabian Muniesa from the
Centre de Sociologie de lInnovation, Mines, Paris, France.
Zoom Link:
https://yorku.zoom.us/j/92061519693?pwd=BQ8MRUHWR3EbZGzzRsJwrVziR7xkaE.1
Join us for Professor Muniesas Book Talk:
Book Talk: Paranoid Finance
There is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be
inescapable. At the core of financial imagination lies a notion of value of
value creation that is loaded with trouble. This is the trouble of a
fragile metaphor: a metaphor of fecund money and future return, of true value
and false value, of true value that should be protected from the perils of
dilapidation, expropriation and speculation, but whose substance is in fact
nowhere to be found.
Contemporary conspiratorial, millennialist discourse on money, banking and
wealth does not embody a delirious misrepresentation of the logic of finance:
rather, it exacerbates the paranoid potentials inherent in mainstream
financial imagination. This is the radical hypothesis developed in this book:
that of paranoid finance as a sedimentation of the demons that haunt the
conventional categories of financial value.
Tutorials abound today that guarantee access to secret knowledge about the
financial system, to magical currencies that release eternal returns, to legal
schemes conducive to personal sovereignty, and to a way out of economic
enslavement. They often combine disparate elements of esotericism,
conspiratorialism, antisemitism, populism, libertarianism or spiritualism. But
as Muniesa shows, they also provide a testbed for a critique of the limits of
financial imagination.
Speaker Bio:
Fabian Muniesa is a researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de lInnovation,
Ecole des Mines de Paris.
Email daynaj@yorku.ca with any questions of concerns,
Dayna
Dayna L. Jeffrey (She/Her)
PhD Candidate Science & Technology Studies
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies
YORK UNIVERSITY
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