New paper out in Journal of Business Research w/ @lenapell.bsky.social .. We show how uncertainty regarding counterfeits in secondhand luxury markets has spillover effects on primary markets - extending Akerlof's lemons 🍋⌚ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New OA paper "Scripting the habitus: How financial devices prefigure class differences" with Cristina Paradiso and Robert Musil on how the scripts of platforms targeted at different social classes contribute class differences in finance. Funded by the @snsf.ch www.socio-journal.ch/article/view...

Registration is now open for PhD/postdocs to the course "Performativity and post-humanist traditions (ANT, STS)" (3ECTS) taught by Prof. Donald MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh) and me. The first part of the course will be in Lugano, 8-10 Sept, the rest online.  www.usi.ch/en/education...

Don't forget to submit your abstract by 1 April to our conference in Lugano with Donald MacKenzie, Markus Giesler and Karen Lai www.digital-transformation.usi.ch/en/dt/partic... @jcultecon.bsky.social @econsocjournal.bsky.social @bigdatasoc.bsky.social @jcrnews.bsky.social @finandsoc.bsky.social

The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33% Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.

Séminaire du STS Lab @sspunil.bsky.social Rejoignez-nous le jeudi 27 mars (12h15-14h, en ligne) pour une discussion autour du livre Eating Is an English Word (Duke UP). Plus d'info: www.unil.ch/events/17382...

I have a new (open access) article in @theoryculturesociety.org 'Another age of anxiety: psychological distress and the 'asset economy'', on how the understanding of anxiety has changed, and some of the broader conditions of its recent resurgence

CfP conf 🌴Lugano, Sept 4-5, 2025 🧮 “From Classes to Classifications: How new (and old) systems of ranking, scoring, segmentation and matching shape social groups and markets” ✨Keynote @drgiesler.bsky.social, @karenpylai.bsky.social &Donald MacKenzie www.digital-transformation.usi.ch/en/dt/partic...

Current @snsf_ch project: how different social classes use digital finance apps - and how these apps contribute to social class differences: "Social patterning of economic subjectivities and the digital transformation of retail finance in Switzerland"