Fashion, Male Beauty and the ‘Men’s Dress Reform Party’
Simon Carter on the Men’s Dress Reform Party (MDRP), an overlooked 1930s lobbying group seeking to change male fashion in order to make men more ‘beautiful’ Read More
Are markets matching Callon and Roth?
Jose Ossandon reflects on overlaps between work on ‘market design’, associated in part with economist Alvin Roth, and that on ‘markets as calculative collective devices’, developed by Michel Callon and colleagues Read More
Observing Observers Observing Observers
David Stark introduces three recent papers that observe observers observing others, including exploring how processes of valuation are shaped by an actor’s location in ‘attention networks’ Read More
A new partner for Charisma: What Makes Organization?
Announcing a new partnership with a project based at the Copenhagen Business School, led by Paul du Gay and Signe Vikkelsø Read More
What stops ranking?
Jose Ossandon reflects on issues surrounding quantification in rankings and scores, as explored in a recent workshop at the Copenhagen Business School Read More
The Economy of the Quota: The Financial Ecologies and Commercial Circuits of Retail Credit Cards in Santiago, Chile
A report on preliminary research conducted by Jose Ossandon into how credit limits move between people and homes. Translated by Taylor Nelms Read More
