[csaa-forum] Masterclasses: Hacking Finance Capital and Digital Ethnography

[Ned Rossiter]

Digital Infrastructures and Economy Masterclasses
Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
http://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/home
3 November 2015
Venue: EB3.17 Parramatta South

10.30-12.30 – Tomás Ariztía, ‘Researching Knowledge Making Practices in Market Settings: From Creative Spaces to Digital Infrastructures’

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2-4pm – Akseli Virtanen, ‘Finance as a Place of Creation: Hacking Finance Capital with Parasitical Algorithms’

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Summaries

Tomás Ariztía, Universidad Diego Portales

‘Researching Knowledge Making Practices in Market Settings: From Creative Spaces to Digital Infrastructures’

This seminar focuses on discussing some methodological issues regarding doing fieldwork in knowledge spaces in markets. In particular, the seminar will present and discuss some of the strategies and devices I have used in order to deal with challenges that distributed knowledge practices and devices posit to an ethnographic approach. The first part of the seminar will consider a 30-40 minutes presentation of some of the research I have done on knowledge practices (with emphasis on my latter project on data mining/transactional data practices). This will be followed by an open discussion in terms of how to design, think and do fieldwork for researching knowledge in the digital age.

Tomás Ariztía is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at Diego Portales University, Chile. His research is concerned with Consumption Studies – particularly Social Studies of Marketing, Sustainable Consumption and energy – and Sociology of knowledge. He is particularly interested on how consumers are mobilized in marketing knowledge practices. He has conducted fieldwork in advertising agencies and marketing departments and is currently involved in a three year research project focused on comparing Big Data, Design Thinking and Market Research as different knowledge grammars through which social entities are enacted in markets. Recently he edited the book Produciendo lo social: usos de las ciencias sociales en el Chile reciente (Ediciones UDP, 2012), which explored the connections between social sciences and the production of social worlds.http://www.icso.cl/investigadores/tomas-ariztia-larrain/

Akseli Virtanen, Robin Hood Minor Asset Management Cooperative

‘Finance as a Place of Creation: Hacking Finance Capital with Parasitical Algorithms’

Robin Hood Asset Management Cooperative is an experiment in the creation of new social and economic forms. It is an algorithmic hedge fund synthetically imitating the emerging conventions of the financial oligarchy at the U.S. stock market, assembled as a cooperative, and operating programs of common equity and protection of the common. In this workshop we try to open up some of the background thinking, some of the things we have learned, the dead ends we have met, and why it has become necessary for Robin Hood to now take on a new and more monstrous form – as a financial platform of the future. Finance is a place of creation. What new possibilities does appropriating and reengineering financial technologies together with the organizational possibilities of blockchain technology offer for today’s workers, makers, co-creators, peers, crowds becoming new kind of economic operators?

Akseli Virtanen is a theorist of new political economy, born in Finland and currently based in Santa Cruz, California. He is a co-founder of Robin Hood Asset Management Cooperative, an activist hedge fund, currently in the process of taking on a new more monstrous form as a financial platform of the future. Akseli’s recent books include Arbitrary Power: A Contribution Towards a Critique of Biopolitical Economy (n-1 Edições, forthcoming 2015). http://www.robinhoodcoop.org/

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