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Journal of Cultural Economy
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JCE explores how material cultural practices organise economies and societies. EICs Philip Roscoe @philiproscoe.bsky.social & Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social
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This is what Cultural Economy in the kitchen, a new podcast series cooked up (sorry) by @philiproscoe.bsky.social & @addiemcgowan.bsky.social looks like. Episode 1 features @tgpb.bsky.social & @allartmarkets.bsky.social waxing nostalgic before getting into Economic Emergencies with Simone Polillo
October 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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& Hatim Rahman www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Extract from review - The Ordinal Society, by Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy, Cambridge, MA, HarvardUniversity Press, 2024, 284 pp., $45.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-674-97114-1By now, many of us have experienced how measurement through rankings, ratings, and similartools dominate our lives. But how exactly did we get to this point and what does the ubiquity ofsuch systems mean for society? In The Ordinal Society, Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy providean engaging, in-depth answer to these questions.In many ways, as the authors show, the pervasive digitization and datafication of society rest onthe development and proliferation of the internet and its infrastructure. Here, the authors begin byexposing the common myth that the advent of the internet rests on the pillars of autonomy, inde-pendence, and challenging authority. Rather, they show how since its beginning, the internet (andSilicon Valley, the ground zero of much technological innovation) relied on government sponsor-ship and subsidies. As much as the internet has seemed to change since its early days, they astutelyhighlight how the internet’s infrastructure remains centralized among a few key players who haveunprecedented access to our data and the power that comes with that access. ...
October 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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The human in the digital Gesellschaft - Michelle Jackson - @mivich.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
extract- To read The Ordinal Society is to be reminded of the banality and destructiveness of technologicalchange. As Fourcade and Healy (F&H) emphasize, the technologies that shape our digital societyare at the same time both frivolous and profound. Algorithms that deliver videos of cats andcake decorating can also be exploited to spread disinformation, organize a popular revolt, or coor-dinate a disaster response. It is, then, entirely appropriate that F&H reference Being and Nothing-ness alongside descriptions of the fall of Twitter and algorithmic bias.In common with many of sociology’s foundational theoretical texts, at the heart of The OrdinalSociety is a desire to understand the human experience of modernity. And in common with thesetexts, the reader’s empathy is drawn toward the individuals and communities obliged to contendwith alien and hostile social forces. The reader is left with an impression of humanity outclassedand outperformed by technological and commercial might. In this commentary, I will consider thehuman struggling within this digital Gesellschaft. I examine F&H’s conceptualization of what itmeans to be human, and discuss how human frailties leave us vulnerable to some of the more destruc-tive aspects of ordinalization. Finally, I ask whether it might be possible to build a different type of ordi-nal society, a society that might better support humans in living fulfilling and satisfying lives.Almost all theoretical work that aims to trace the development of macrosociological forces holdsto a model of how humans would live in the absence of those forces. Sometimes this counterfactualmodel is made explicit, and sometimes the model is only implied. In Marx’s writings, for example,we learn that it was economic exploitation that perverted humanity, and that in their more ‘natural’state, humans would gain meaning from work and small-scale production....
October 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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From the subprime to the premium, from California to fascism? - @jmigozzi.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Extract: Another book on tech, AI, algorithms, and inequalities? Thou shalt be deceived. This is not to say that other works on similar topics neglect theory, but what is at stake for Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy is not merely an analysis of the inner workings of digital capitalism. Rather, their pro-ject is to document and theorize the social form it engenders. To that end, they engage in deep dia-logue with social theory, extending and elevating their previous scholarship to illuminate howcapitalism, social stratification, and political life are being reshaped by the ‘changing relationship between information technology and power’ (2024, 3) (3), through which ‘classes of people, scores,and prices became closely connected’ (271). The argument unfolds as follows: digital technologiesengineered in California entered our daily lives through the binding logic of a gift to never leave usagain (chapter 1), feeding a large-scale, networked system of ongoing data collection, throughwhich anyone and anything can be measured, ranked and classified (chapter 2). This technological transformation is profoundly social and political, updating existing inequalities and justifying new ones (chapter 3), bringing market structures and outcomes into financialized, individualistic andmonopolistic grounds (chapters 4 and 5), and shifting the political arena: reformatting identities,digital capitalism dismantles and re-assembles the meaning and scope of citizenship at the expenseof public institutions (chapters 6 and 7).
October 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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One of our EiCs there, eating sleeping and dreaming in cultural economy since 1965
Baby and aging editor dancing with 60th birthday balloons
October 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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And everyone in the team from Max Weber through Stuart Hall to the present day. Go team culture!
October 15, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Our latest issue just out and, we think we can say this, it is a banger. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c... feat. @philiproscoe.bsky.social @ulissess.bsky.social @cibled.bsky.social @maijutanninen.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social &&
October 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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& another one; most read in last yr; www.tandfonline.com/action/showM... @stevethreadgold.bsky.social @rogerjburrows.bsky.social @jessaloomis.bsky.social @dcockayne.bsky.social @allartmarkets.bsky.social @stefananthro.bsky.social @taschn.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social @tomduterme.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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sometimes we wonder what are we going to post this week. today is going to be the most cited articles of our life www.tandfonline.com/action/showM... .👀 Judith Butler still no.1 ++ @noortjem.bsky.social @pardoguerra.bsky.social @yuvalmillo.bsky.social @allartmarkets.bsky.social and a whole
April 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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February 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Opens & Closes: the future of Edinburgh's Histories by our EiC @allartmarkets.bsky.social & artist in residence @sapphiregoss.bsky.social goes live on YouTube next Thursday. We'll post the youtube link next week & in the in[erson event is efi.ed.ac.uk/event/opens-... @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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This is wonderful stuff. Our friend and AE Jose Ossandon estudiosdelaeconomia.wordpress.com
interviewing Donald Mackenzie on all the genealogical, relational angles from Barry Barnes to David Bloor to Viviana Zelizer ㊗️🙌
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December 4, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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My attachment to Michel Callon’s markets - EiC @allartmarkets.bsky.social tries to come to terms with Callon in Pt 1 of our symposium on Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/...
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December 4, 2024 at 7:31 AM
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In Part 2 of our Review Symposium of Michel Callon’s Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation. - our AE Koray Caliskan brings together @paullangley.bsky.social @alroth.bsky.social, Bill Maurer and Timothy Mitchell www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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December 3, 2024 at 7:13 AM
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The editors are divided but mostly we feel this checks out @econsocjournal.bsky.social
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November 27, 2023 at 9:03 AM
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Tomorrow, two of our Eds, @allartmarkets.bsky.social and Koray Caliskan with Evren Uzer on Designing Space as a Market Device, Parsons, New School NY. Zoomable too at the QR code. fancy
November 6, 2023 at 1:11 PM
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and all these people @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social @provokedeconomy.bsky.social @pardoguerra.bsky.social @nickseaver.website who are mostly not here, yet www.journalofculturaleconomy.org/people/
October 6, 2023 at 8:48 AM
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We are: Bill Maurer, Philip Roscoe, Zenia Kish, Megan Wolf, Jose Ossandon, Ismail Erturk, Koray Caliskan, Teea Palo, Toby Bennett, Taylor Nelms, Darren Umney, @karengregory.bsky.social @drdaveobrien.bsky.social @allartmarkets.bsky.social www.journalofculturaleconomy.org/people/
October 6, 2023 at 8:40 AM
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and it is!

Hey there, Mr. Blue
We're so pleased to be with you
Look around, see what you do
Everybody smiles at you
October 6, 2023 at 8:27 AM
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We just want to record for posterity that our esteemed Associate Editor, Koray Caliskan GOT TENURE!!! Congrats Koray. Here he is, messing with Donald MacKenzie, in Edinburgh in June.
October 1, 2023 at 12:43 PM
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Hello bluesky we are an interdisciplinary journal, we used to like the other place, now not so much. We have a blog www.journalofculturaleconomy.org, the publisher's site www.tandfonline.com/action/showA... and we like a bit of clobber.
Photo of Eds @allartmarkets.bsky.social Philip Roscoe, Koray Caliskan and board members Donald MacKenzie and Lana Swartz showing off JCE merchandise at a conference dinner
October 1, 2023 at 12:27 PM