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OverviewA media theory of markets Markets abound in media—but a media theory of markets is still emerging. Anthropology offers media archaeologies of markets, and the sociology of markets and finance unravels how contemporary financial markets have witnessed a media technological arms race. Building on such work, this volume brings together key thinkers of economic studies with German media theory, describes the central role of the media specificity of markets in new detail and inflects them in three distinct ways. Nik-Khah and Mirowski show how the denigration of human cognition and the concomitant faith in computation prevalent in contemporary market-design practices rely on neoliberal conceptions of information in markets. Schröter confronts the asymmetries and abstractions that characterize money as a medium and explores the absence of money in media. Beverungen situates these inflections and gathers further elements for a politically and historically attuned media theory of markets concerned with contemporary phenomena such as high-frequency trading and cryptocurrencies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Armin Beverungen , Philip Mirowski , Edward Nik-Khah , Jens SchröterPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press ISBN: 9781517906467ISBN 10: 1517906466 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 29 January 2019 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationPhilip Mirowski is professor of history and philosophy of science and Carl Koch Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of More Heat than Light, Machine Dreams, ScienceMart, and Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, and, with Edward Nik-Khah, of The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information. Edward Nik-Khah is professor of economics at Roanoke College. He is the author, with Philip Mirowski, of The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information. Jens Schröter is professor of media studies at the University of Bonn. He is the author of 3D, as well as a number of books in German. Armin Beverungen is lecturer in media studies at the University of Siegen. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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