The Work Futures Research Group and the Bristol Digital Futures Institute invites you to a Research Symposium on Finance and Digital Futures. This is one of three seminars being held as part of the symposium. 

The digital economy is profoundly shaped by speculative finance. However, financial logics and practices are notoriously difficult to study. This Symposium features three speakers who will share their work in this area and help us better understand the nature and impact of speculation.

Does Paranoid Finance have a Digital Future?

The demons of finance are with dreams of algorithmic transparency, generative intelligence, and quantum technique. All full of stereotypes of disruption, revolution, liberation, and salvation. Drawing from recent work on the delirious potentials of financial imagination (Paranoid Finance, Polity 2024), Fabian Muniesa will offer a few thoughts on how these may connect to the paradigm of digital society.

About the Speaker:

Fabian Muniesa is a research director (Professor) at Mines Paris (the École des Mines de Paris), PSL University, and a member of the Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation. Originally trained as a sociologist, he has developed expertise in fields such as science and technology studies, economic sociology, economic anthropology and organization studies. His current areas of interest and research projects include: the sociology of finance, the anthropology of capitalism, the history of experimental methods in the social sciences, the pragmatics of calculation, and the politics of innovation.

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This is a hybrid event. If you're joining online a zoom link will be sent to you after registration.