On Bowie theory and Bowie bonds

25th January 2016

Andrew Leyshon on David Bowie’s smart take on the major changes to the industry his career coincided with Read More

Moments of Valuation

3rd March 2015

David Stark introduces Moments of Valuation, a new book he has co-edited with Ariane Berthoin Antal, and Michael Hutter and asks: how is value performed? Read More

Are Markets Good for People? Exploring the politics and culture of social insurance

13th June 2014

Outlines, reading lists and presentations from the SUNY NEH seminar exploring social insurance schemes Read More

Silent lectures

5th June 2014

David Stark introduces his ‘silent lectures’, which are available to download. There are four silent lectures – Performance, Models, Demonstrations, and (with Gernot Grabher) Frequently Asked Questions Read More

‘BREAKING BAD’: markets, healthcare and drug money

31st March 2014

Simon Carter explores what Breaking Bad can teach us about the role that markets play in our lives Read More

Devising or agencing markets?

5th December 2013

Are consumer markets devised or ‘agenced’? Liz McFall wonders in this first follow up to the ESF Agencing Markets workshop and extract from her forthcoming book Devising Consumption. Read More

In Vivo Economies: Culturing Temporalities of Life and Value

13th November 2013

Melinda Cooper on how recent developments in the life sciences pose compelling questions about the relationship between the culturing of life and value, plus audio clips from a related workshop and a full podcast of Catherine Waldby’s talk Read More

Low and high finance studies after performativity: A speculative workshop report

8th July 2013

Jose Ossandon provides a series of provocations for those studying finance, following the recent Charisma sponsored workshop exploring the knitting of ‘high’ and and ‘low’ finance Read More

The Fairest Exchange? On art, money and ‘artmoney’

30th May 2013

Mark Banks looks at the Artmoney project, exploring the implications of this alternate, affective and communicative form of money Read More

In praise of Ken Morrison

2nd May 2013

Karel Williams on careful Ken Morrison whose better way of organising meat supply persists in Morrison’s, the supermarket chain he founded, whose meat is still largely British Read More