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/Capitalization: A Cultural Guide/
By Fabian Muniesa, Liliana Doganova, Horacio Ortiz, Álvaro
Pina-Stranger, Florence Paterson, Alaric Bourgoin, Véra Ehrenstein,
Pierre-André Juven, David Pontille, Başak Saraç-Lesavre and Guillaume Yon
Presses des Mines, 2017
168 pages
ISBN: 9782356714220
http://www.pressesdesmines.com/capitalization.html
What does it mean to turn something into capital? What does considering
things as assets entail? What does the prevalence of an investor’s
viewpoint require? What is this culture of valuation that asks that we
capitalize on everything? How can we make sense of the traits,
necessities and upshots of this pervasive cultural condition?
This book takes the reader to an ethnographic stroll down the trail of
capitalization. Start-up companies, research centers, consulting firms,
state enterprises, investment banks, public administrations: the
territory can certainly prove strange and disorienting at first sight,
with its blurred boundaries between private appropriation and public
interest, economic sanity and moral breakdown, the literal and the
metaphorical, the practical and the ideological. The traveler certainly
requires a resolutely pragmatist attitude, and a taste for the meanders
of signification. But in all the sites in which we set foot in this
inquiry we recognize a recurring semiotic complex: a scenario of
valuation in which things signify by virtue of their capacity to become
assets in the eye of an imagined investor.
A ground-breaking anthropological investigation on the culture of
contemporary capitalism, this work directs attention to the largely
unexplored problem of capitalization and offers a critical resource for
current debates on neoliberalism and financialization.
The authorial collective is composed of Fabian Muniesa, Liliana
Doganova, Horacio Ortiz, Álvaro Pina-Stranger, Florence Paterson, Alaric
Bourgoin, Véra Ehrenstein, Pierre-André Juven, David Pontille, Başak
Saraç-Lesavre and Guillaume Yon, contributing research carried out at
the Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation (CSI) of the École des Mines de
Paris.
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Fabian Muniesa
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Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI)
i3 CNRS UMR 9217
Mines ParisTech, PSL Research University
60 boulevard Saint-Michel
75272 Paris cedex 06 France
http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/
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