Goldsmiths Press / PERC Papers – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Goldsmiths Press / PERC Papers. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
4 produkter
4 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
237 kr
Skickas
A critical and evidence-based account of the COVID-19 pandemic as a political–economic rupture, exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices.The dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic represented an exceptional interruption in the routines of work, financial markets, movement across borders and education. The policies introduced in response were said to be unprecedented—but the distribution of risks and rewards was anything but. While asset-owners, outsourcers, platforms and those in spacious homes prospered, others faced new hardships and dangers. Unprecedented? explores the events of 2020-21, as they afflicted the UK economy, as a means to grasp the underlying dynamics of contemporary capitalism, which are too often obscured from view. It traces the political and cultural contours of a "rentier nationalism," that was lurking prior to the pandemic, but was accelerated and illuminated by COVID-19. But it also pinpoints the contradictions and weaknesses of this capitalist model, and the new sources of opposition that it meets. An empirical, accessible and critical analysis of the COVID economy, Unprecedented? is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the political and economic turbulence of the pandemic’s first eighteen months.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
311 kr
Kommande
This book explores online reputation conflicts, by thinking through how they extend and ‘evolve’ the complex histories of credit, status, deference and battle that have long inflected how platformed reputations move and matter. It unpacks four online reputation regimes, intersections between the general opinion and conflicts over reputational value informed by long histories of capitalist reputation management. The crowd-sourced credibility regime extends consumer credit scoring histories, inviting online users to think of platformed liking and rating as steps in a crowd-sourced credit scoring algorithm. The microcelebrity regime governs status in the lives of online cultural producers, such as aspiring YouTube stars. It operationalizes status metrics, such as subscriber counts, to distinguish between paid and unpaid online cultural labour. The identity regime extends racial and patriarchal capitalisms, by ascribing users different reputational rewards, costs and risks according to identity categories. The campaigning regime describes the pervasive sense that online reputation must be fought for – whether through acts of online electioneering, public relations efforts, influencer marketing, or everyday social media posts subtly inflected with these protocols. Together, these regimes comprise a widespread state of reputation warfare, in which seemingly trivial battles over status, credibility and influence play a crucial role in shaping politics and public life.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
205 kr
Tillfälligt slut
An innovative new anthology exploring how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics.From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley's consumerist dystopias, economics and science fiction have often orbited each other. In Economic Science Fictions, editor William Davies has deliberately merged the two worlds, asking how we might harness the power of the utopian imagination to revitalize economic thinking.Rooted in the sense that our current economic reality is no longer credible or viable, this collection treats our economy as a series of fictions and science fiction as a means of anticipating different economic futures. It asks how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics and provides surprising new syntheses, merging social science with fiction, design with politics, scholarship with experimental forms. With an opening chapter from Ha-Joon Chang as well as theory, short stories, and reflections on design, this book from Goldsmiths Press challenges and changes the notion that economics and science fiction are worlds apart. The result is a wealth of fresh and unusual perspectives for anyone who believes the economy is too important to be left solely to economists.ContributorsAUDINT, Khairani Barokka, Carina Brand, Ha-Joon Chang, Miriam Cherry, William Davies, Mark Fisher, Dan Gavshon-Brady and James Pockson, Owen Hatherley, Laura Horn, Tim Jackson, Mark Johnson, Bastien Kerspern, Nora O Murchú, Tobias Revell et al., Judy Thorne, Sherryl Vint, Joseph Walton, Brian Willems
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
286 kr
Tillfälligt slut
A provocative analysis of market-based interventions into public problems and the consequences.Market-based interventions have been used in attempts to solve numerous public problems, from education to healthcare and from climate change to privacy. Scholars have responded persuasively through critiques of neoliberalism. In Can Markets Solve Problems? Daniel Neyland, Véra Ehrenstein, and Sveta Milyaeva propose a different route forward.There is no single entity knowable as “the market,” the authors argue. Instead, they examine in detail the devices, relations, and practices that underpin these market-based interventions. Drawing on recent work in science and technology studies (STS), each chapter focuses on a different intervention and critically explores the market sensibility around which it is organized. Trade and exchange, competition, property and ownership, and investment and return all become the focus of a thorough exploration of what it means to intervene in public problems, how problems are composed, and how solutions are continually reworked.Can Markets Solve Problems? offers the first book-length STS enquiry into markets and public problems. Weaving together rich empirical descriptions and conceptual discussions, the book provides in-depth insights into the workings of these markets, their continuous evolution, and the consequences. The result is a new avenue of critical inquiry that moves between the details of specific policies and the always-emerging, collective features of this landscape of intervention.