Everyday Debt and Credit: Special Issue of Cultural Studies

26th September 2013

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Cultural Studies exploring how debt and credit circulate through the everyday and the intimate. Edited by Gregory J. Seigworth and Joe Deville. Expressions of interest by February 2014. Read More

Just looking? Choice and constraint in practices of visual consumption at magazine newsstands

26th September 2013

A new paper by Mehita Iqani, published in Consumption Markets & Culture, that looks at the practices of looking that occur in London’s newsstands Read More

Exploring the Performativity of Marketing: Theories, Practices and Devices

25th September 2013

Journal of Marketing Management Special Issue Call for Papers on the performativity of marketing – deadline 29 November. Read More

Unpacking insight: How consumers are qualified by advertising agencies

12th August 2013

A new paper by Tomas Artizia, published in Journal of Consumer Culture, describing how consumers are qualified and mobilised in advertising agencies, with a focus on how ‘insight’ is producted and circulated Read More

Postdoc investigating digital & peer to peer finance

9th August 2013

Full time post-doctoral position at Lancaster University investigating digital connectivity and peer-to-peer relationships in financial services Read More

An interview with Philip Mirowski

23rd July 2013

An interview with Philip Mirowski on Estudios de la Economía, including reflections on how Facebook teaches you to be a neoliberal agent and how the performativity programme ends up with sociologists recapitulating economists Read More