Is someone working on a collective project to restore local newspapers' internet presence? Local sites are often beyond unusable.

Saturday morning listening

New podcast featuring the excellent Carla Ibled and yours truly.

Also ooops late tagging @dominikzelinsky.bsky.social

and 2) @dominikzelinsky.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Both articles written by the authors featured here are great: 1) @cibled.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🥳 and it’s live youtu.be/xVG8J71YYRw?... - feat. @cibled.bsky.social & Dominik Želinský 🎧 the scent of musk tempered with a liberal appreciation of haggis

Coming up on Friday, our next podcast, The scent of Musk.. is a banger feat. @cibled.bsky.social & Dominic Zelinsky with @addiemcgowan.bsky.social & @[email protected] www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...

I do have an account, though I mainly use it for destroying my time rather than anything productive (I'm a bit more so on Rednote though). My go-to advisor would be @olimould.bsky.social, who's such a tiktok influencer that his videos get featured on hysterical news reports and also does this:

we know this is a stretch but any of you jce fluent people out there active on tiktok? or know any good acad-related accounts? think of it as an exercise in intergenerational care

Changing asset manager mandates is one of the few downstream options available to pension funds looking to drive sustainability under conditions of asymmetric autonomy. Its decarbonization impact is limited but it may trigger market dynamics. More in our paper w/ @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social

Little known fact, this is one of Edinburgh’s brutalist beauties that our cover is based on, from a drawing by the talented Simon Phipps @new_brutalism on IG

Our AE there trying to find out about birds and hope (and William James) @allartmarkets.bsky.social doing the science

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES >>> sound & vision made using an IBM hole punch on 16mm film/tape loops/celluloid synthesiser vision to sound/vox >>> loops of the ‘obsolete’ and the handmade #ibm #tapeloops

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Why? What's next? Our book is OPEN ACCESS, so feel free to download the PDF and read it: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

In the 1980s, a monster was assembled in the pharmaceutical world that pitted patients' interests against those of pharmaceutical investors: the neoliberal pharma model. In PEAK PHARMA w/ @susigeiger.bsky.social, out today @academic.oup.com, we show that this monster is entering a crucial phase...

Out: Peak Pharma @susigeiger.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...

We are now LIVE with From Walkman to Polycrisis @ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c... and www.youtube.com/@CulturalEco... and that other place with all the Wrapping @allartmarkets.bsky.social @tgpb.bsky.social @philiproscoe.bsky.social @addiemcgowan.bsky.social & Simone Pollilo

What?

And then... 2) "Economic emergencies: exception, government and the management of the economy" by Egor Makarov and Simone Polillo - a useful conceptual map of Foucauldian and Schmittian approaches to emergency and exception. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We chat about two papers: 1) "Undoing Cultural Studies: Cultural Economy at the Open University (1979-1997)" - a part-history of "workshopping" at the OU, associated with Stuart Hall and Doreen Massey (who I refer to as Jamesonian "vanishing mediators"). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From the emergence of cultural economy to the culture of economic emergency, via bulletproof coffee, muffins and anchovies... Hey look - it's your new favourite academic podcast.

We are now LIVE with From Walkman to Polycrisis @ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c... and www.youtube.com/@CulturalEco... and that other place with all the Wrapping @allartmarkets.bsky.social @tgpb.bsky.social @philiproscoe.bsky.social @addiemcgowan.bsky.social & Simone Pollilo

The first episode, impeccably hosted by @philiproscoe.bsky.social & @addiemcgowan.bsky.social featuring @tgpb.bsky.social @allartmarkets.bsky.social & Simone Pollilo, goes live tomorrow. We expect you'll all be featuring in your 2026 Wrapped. www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...

OUT TODAY Building a local currency: elaborating, maintaining, and redirecting values through tensions 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗣𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗼, 𝗝𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝘆 𝗔𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀, 𝗘𝗱𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 @edgranter.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW: Moral frameworks of commercial surrogacy in Georgia - Ketevan Gurchiani www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW: Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium - @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW: Articulating value(s): problematizing financial moralities in impact investments - Claudia Campisano www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW: The legal dematerialization of enchantment: prizes, brands and the magical economics of something-for-nothing - Anat Rosenberg www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New! (Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry @arturoarriagada.bsky.social & @mvaldeb.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW PUBLICATION: Digital Eating special issue co-edited with @jeremybrice.bsky.social and Karin Eli in @jcultecon.bsky.social The special issue examines how digitalisation is transforming the conditions under which eating is organised, valued, and contested in everyday life,

Thrilled to see this article with Arturo Arriagada out now. If you’re interested in how the influencer industry works in Chile, have a read :)

O.K. @jcultecon.bsky.social rss.com/podcasts/cul...

OUT TODAY Building a local currency: elaborating, maintaining, and redirecting values through tensions 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗣𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗼, 𝗝𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝘆 𝗔𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀, 𝗘𝗱𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 @edgranter.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now available to pre-subscribe in fervent anticipation.

Insert 'agential cuts' gag here...

we weren't joking www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...

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

still naming your naval patrol ships WBYeats, James Joyce and George Bernard Shaw is bold [very Mac unfraidhy] on.ft.com/4oUYBKp

NEW: Moral frameworks of commercial surrogacy in Georgia - Ketevan Gurchiani www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW: Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium - @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW: Articulating value(s): problematizing financial moralities in impact investments - Claudia Campisano www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW: The legal dematerialization of enchantment: prizes, brands and the magical economics of something-for-nothing - Anat Rosenberg www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New! (Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry @arturoarriagada.bsky.social & @mvaldeb.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Bill Maurer inside!!! "Le troc, la première forme de monnaie ? | Est-il vrai que...? | ARTE" @artefr.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBFj...

Is Taylor Swift the new FW Taylor? No. She's the new Jonathan Swift, which is worse. Here's why only Veblen can help us. I reviewed the latest album in order to get it out of my system. tgpbennett.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/p...

New article with @mvaldeb.bsky.social out now in the @jcultecon.bsky.social: "(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry". shorturl.at/HzPCi We explore how influencer marketing companies and their algorithmic tools define and measure “influence”.

One day, in the far future people will realise that big sheds are made of insurance 💷

And if you reckon banks have moderated their behaviour post-financial crisis, get this: US loans to private equity and credit funds have jumped by 60 per cent between the fourth quarter of 2024 and the second quarter of this year. To almost half a trillion dollars.