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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 6d

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 &&

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 8d

Ha, I am certainly no expert by any means. But thanks though - I will definitely forward to some colleagues in China!

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 11d

This article is great! It offers a contribution to conceptualisations of "real abstraction" by asking how music helps us come to *feel* exchange value.

MORE IMPORTANTLY it genuinely provides an answer to this age-old question:

Image of what appears to be a shiny room, lit from multiple directions, as in a Hype Williams video - but is on closer inspection a handy kitchen appliance. Caption reads:
"Why does the inside of a cheese grater look like every rap music video from the early 2000s?"

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 11d

This article is great! It offers a contribution to conceptualisations of "real abstraction" by asking how music helps us come to *feel* exchange value.

MORE IMPORTANTLY it genuinely provides an answer to this age-old question:

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 15d

It's a really useful provocation Théo!

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AKA Fa͍ͥ͒ͦͣ͑bi̗̼̣̦̳̊͐̏͊̇aͭn̜͕̜̠̼ͤ̐̏ Munié̼͙̭͉̫̌ͤ̑̓s͚͔̩̓̆a @provokedeconomy.bsky.social · 23d

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 24d

"the rise of reactionary politics is an epochal trend that reshapes markets and capitalist systems in depth"

@theobourgeron.bsky.social in @jcultecon.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Economic sociology and the far-right

Reflecting on the recent support of prominent business moguls for far-right movements, this comment article argues that reactionary politics are permeating deeply into socio-economic interactions, ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24d

“While each approach contributes to an economic sociology of the far right, the article contends that the materialist approach is central for articulating these findings with those of broader far-right studies.”

Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 24d

"the rise of reactionary politics is an epochal trend that reshapes markets and capitalist systems in depth"

@theobourgeron.bsky.social in @jcultecon.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Economic sociology and the far-right

Reflecting on the recent support of prominent business moguls for far-right movements, this comment article argues that reactionary politics are permeating deeply into socio-economic interactions, ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 24d

A dose of Stuart Hall for what ails us.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · Jan 1

Stuart Hall on “Studying the Conjuncture" is so good: “If you don't agree there is a good degree of openness & contingency to every historical conjuncture, you don't believe in politics. You don't believe that anything can be done." youtu.be/bHpht1nNtB0?...

Studying the Conjuncture - STUART HALL: THROUGH THE PRISM OF AN INTELLECTUAL LIFE

Stream the Full Lecture Now on Kanopy:https://www.kanopy.com/product/stuart-hall-through-prism-intellectual-lifAlso Available on DVD:https://shop.mediaed.org...

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 24d

In this vein I also recommend reading @busedoyu.bsky.social and colleagues taking Callon to Zucotti park: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And @philiproscoe.bsky.social on the simultaneous rise of "market studies" amid the downfall of market primacy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The times they are a-changin': markets after neoliberalism, and how to study them

This is a lightly edited version of the inaugural lecture given by Professor Philip Roscoe, at the University of St Andrews, 19 February 2025. Philip has been Editor-in Chief (joint) of this journa...

www.tandfonline.com

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 24d

I'd add that @jcultecon.bsky.social is open to comment pieces & analyses of the present conjuncture of this kind, under the excellent stewardship of @busedoyu.bsky.social. There's no "party line", other than a need to be in (maybe critical) dialogue with the kind of thinking the journal foregrounds.

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 24d

This is a great article

Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 24d

"the rise of reactionary politics is an epochal trend that reshapes markets and capitalist systems in depth"

@theobourgeron.bsky.social in @jcultecon.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Economic sociology and the far-right

Reflecting on the recent support of prominent business moguls for far-right movements, this comment article argues that reactionary politics are permeating deeply into socio-economic interactions, ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social · 24d

@stuartelden.bsky.social is a master of the illuminating microstories of intellectual history; this one on how Bourdieu's translation of Panofsky shaped his and contemporary French thinking is a gem

progressivegeographies.com/2025/09/14/p...

Pierre Bourdieu and Erwin Panofsky: Architecture, Scholasticism and the Concept of Habitus

In 1967, Pierre Bourdieu translated Erwin Panofsky’s 1951 book Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism into French. The German-born Panofsky is best known for his work in art history, and f…

progressivegeographies.com

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 24d

"the rise of reactionary politics is an epochal trend that reshapes markets and capitalist systems in depth"

@theobourgeron.bsky.social in @jcultecon.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Economic sociology and the far-right

Reflecting on the recent support of prominent business moguls for far-right movements, this comment article argues that reactionary politics are permeating deeply into socio-economic interactions, ...

www.tandfonline.com

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 29d

🎨 The art of the public: cultural economy and cultural policy

IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social co-authored a paper alongside Justin O'Connor & @tgpb.bsky.social‬‬, arguing for a new and more dynamic valuation of art as a public good.

✍️ Read the paper: buff.ly/9OA9eVo

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 28d

Meanwhile I'm seeing a lot of small and under-resourced organisations really ploughing their ingenuity into rethinking how tasks work with genAI - in this context it seems to me that genAI is really an austerity technology, something small orgs turn to when there are few other options

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 28d

This is an excellent and underappreciated observation. (Some) AI tools offer a fun-ish new way of approaching the boring task (for a while). They don't do away with the need for the boring task to be completed. So much 'innovation' fuelled by the fantasy of an escape from admin...

Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 28d

(aside, I think some people under-estimate how much of some office jobs is spent doing slightly boring tasks that no one wants to do - so it is absolutely the case that the novelty value of having a different way of doing the boring task is one reason that some people enjoy using genAI tools)

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European Association of Science Editors @easeeditors.bsky.social · 29d

On the EASE Digest, we highlight the new book from @samuelmoore.org tackling the infrastructures and integrity of the open access research publishing landscape.

ease.org.uk/2025/09/publ...

#EASEdigest #OpenAccess

Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons - EASE

Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for schol...

ease.org.uk

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 29d

Will no doubt be a crucial resource.

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 29d

It’s in 😬😱

Seeing Like a Supply Chain:
Data in the Circuits of Global Trade
Miriam Posner

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Systems at War in a Hostile Universe: The Informatic Roots of Logistics
2. Exploding the BOM: Digitizing Production in the Cold War
3. Phantoms, Backflushes, and the Trumpet of Doom: The Dilemmas of Just-in-Time
4. Inventing SCM
5. The Sensate Company in the Animate Cloud
6. Transferring Risk in a Calamitous World

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · Aug 31

Yes something about the collision of different kinds of property renovation something something.

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · Aug 31

"The trouble with having a skip outside your house", they said, "is that people treat it like a public bin".

And while this is true, and it's pretty disgusting, it also means you sometimes end up with a big carrier bag full of ragga and dancehall cassettes. Reasonable trade-off in my eyes.

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Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov.bsky.social · Aug 20

Warren Brodey, one of the most fascinating and mysterious figures of recent tech history, passed away on August 10th. He was 101. A complex man who went from mentoring Nicholas Negroponte at MIT to becoming a Maoist in Norway and China www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/t...

Warren Brodey, 101, Dies; a Visionary at the Dawn of the Information Age

www.nytimes.com

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · Aug 18

I need to look into SA clearly. NC seems somehow intuitively correct but I've seen it criticised in the past by other well-informed people too.

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · Aug 18

I assume your post was related to the current authors/publishers vs Meta via LibGen issue? The parallels with music (and elsewhere) are striking. Anyway it's really refreshing to see someone call this out, especially a legal scholar. Feels like only a very few lonely voices doing so.

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · Aug 17

Yes I love it! All of his reviews from this era are so cutting but this one's a gem. It must have been picked up by critical PR before(?) but I'd never heard of it.

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · Aug 17

I mostly agree although I'd probably describe copyright as the major (but not only) device through which this rentier imaginary is constructed. And while I find that imaginary so weird and alienating I can see why it might appeal. It just feels like the horse bolted so long ago though.