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Journal of Cultural Economy

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JCE explores how material cultural practices organise economies and societies. EICs Philip Roscoe @philiproscoe.bsky.social & Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social

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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 9h
‘we are a little bit in this environment today; the music plays, and people are still dancing…The music will stop playing at a moment in time. But the timing is so difficult to predict, so that’s why diversification is more than ever necessary.’ Chanelling citigroup’s Chuck Prince in July 2007
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Investors look to shelter portfolios from rising AI concentration risks
Fund managers see hedge funds and emerging markets assets as bulwarks against sudden shift in sentiment on artificial intelligence
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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 22h
And if it’s not germane (which it is) it’s still fascinating and untold. I mean if I see one more take that compares the AI bubble to railways or dot com I may fall into a coma. There is so so much else to say about the historical paths to where we are now.
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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 22h
What if I was to call it ‘The Big Shed Economy: the history of hyperscale finance’ eh? On account of the fact that the long history of insurance financing retail market encounters is (probably) germane to what’s happening now in AI financification.
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Laser @stefanlaser.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Plugging my recent article on the topic 🌈👇, "Encountering the semiconductor industry: fairs and global value chains in motion", @jcultecon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Encountering the semiconductor industry: fairs and global value chains in motion, from Taiwan to Vietnam
Semiconductors are central to global markets and shaping economic futures. Chip markets are arranged through industry fairs, among other events. This article examines how industry events shape mark...
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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 26/08/2026
New Pub Alert! Our member @julieychen.bsky.social published "Patchworking platforms: on socio-technological infrastructures for AI data labor supply" earlier this year in @jcultecon.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Patchworking platforms: on socio-technological infrastructures for AI data labor supply
Focusing on China’s AI data production industry, this article examines the formation of a multi-layered structure of data labor supply, demonstrating how workers with different labor relations and ...
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Thomas Franssen @thomasfranssen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New paper with Mandy de Wilde! 'A good drainage economy: the elemental politics of Dutch carbon farming' in @jcultecon.bsky.social tracing how scientists calculated CO2 emissions and how environmental NGOs acted on them. #Valuationstudies #politicalecology #STS www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Our coEiC @allartmarkets.bsky.social has a piece in this alongside @maijutanninen.bsky.social & @gertmeyers.bsky.social ; Stephen Collier; Elena Esposito & Alberto Cevilini; Pierre Francois; Laurence Barry; Turo Kimmo Lehtonen; Paula Jarzabokowski et al
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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We are hiring! Part-time fixed term Research Fellow based at @uoe-sps.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Research Fellow (Digital Gambling Observatory - Young Adults)
As a member of the Digital Gambling Observatory (Young Adults) funded under the UKRI Gambling Harms Research and Innovation Partnerships programme, you will work across project activities in collabora...
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
And another from our very talented RC editor Elif Buse Doyuran @busedoyu.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Nudge goes to Silicon Valley: designing for the disengaged and the irrational
An array of software apps, from fitness to finance, enrolls behavioral economics, and economists, in their product designs, value propositions, or else sales pitches, to make products more engaging...
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
We love basically everything about @cyberlyra.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @alex-taylor.bsky.social @bshestakofsky.bsky.social manifesto arxiv.org/abs/2604.16106 - with 1 exception. Several JCE authors have been working on this stuff for a while. It’s a whole field not just a few authors
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Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI: Avoiding Decoys in Pursuit of Accountability
The Project of AI is a world-building endeavor, wherein those who fund and develop AI systems both operate through and seek to sustain networks of power and wealth. As they expand their access to reso...
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A̴̙̅Ǩ̸̫A̵̭̍ ̵̖̃F̴̛͈ȧ̸͙b̶̦́ï̵͙a̵̜̾n̸̰͠ ̸̘̾M̷̟͠u̴͉̇n̷̥͝i̷̻͆e̸̮̾ŝ̵̲a̴̹͌ @provokedeconomy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
'The algorithmic principal: agencement, infrastructure, and the material construction of AI economic sovereignty' @adam-hayes.bsky.social @jcultecon.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1753...
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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 15/05/2026
Andrea Alarcón and Cheryl Soriano recently published an OA article "The center’s ‘invisible back support’: infrastructuring labor behind virtual assistants in the Philippines" in the Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The center’s ‘invisible back support’: infrastructuring labor behind virtual assistants in the Philippines
This paper focuses on the often overlooked, offline choreographing of resources and reproductive labor required for being a virtual assistant, heeding the call for scholarship on digital labor ‘bey...
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Loïc Riom @loicriom.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Victor’s article and mine are both available online @jcultecon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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‘How much is too much?’: dynamically priced tickets and algorithm agency on the Ticketmaster platform
The present article reflects on algorithmic mediation in the dynamic pricing of concert tickets. Based on the implementation of so-called Platinum Tickets by Ticketmaster in the United States, the ...
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A̴̙̅Ǩ̸̫A̵̭̍ ̵̖̃F̴̛͈ȧ̸͙b̶̦́ï̵͙a̵̜̾n̸̰͠ ̸̘̾M̷̟͠u̴͉̇n̷̥͝i̷̻͆e̸̮̾ŝ̵̲a̴̹͌ @provokedeconomy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
'Do ethnographers make markets?' -- Guest Editors: Gustavo Onto & José Ossandón @gustavoonto.bsky.social @delaeconomia.bsky.social @jcultecon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/1...
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Do ethnographers make markets? Guest Editors: Gustavo Onto and José Ossandón. Volume 19, Issue 3 of Journal of Cultural Economy
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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
🚨New article w/ @savannahcox.bsky.social & @zacjtaylor.bsky.social in @jcultecon.bsky.social🚨 "Inscription networks: finance, infrastructural power, and the governance of climate risk" explores a longstanding player in state-market entanglements -Moody's- as it shapes how climate change is governed.
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A̴̙̅Ǩ̸̫A̵̭̍ ̵̖̃F̴̛͈ȧ̸͙b̶̦́ï̵͙a̵̜̾n̸̰͠ ̸̘̾M̷̟͠u̴͉̇n̷̥͝i̷̻͆e̸̮̾ŝ̵̲a̴̹͌ @provokedeconomy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
More trouble than previously thought... Thanks @suscrockford.bsky.social @erosamon.bsky.social @aminsamman.bsky.social for brilliant critiques of 'Paranoid Finance'!!! And @busedoyu.bsky.social @allartmarkets.bsky.social @jcultecon.bsky.social for setting this up!!! doi.org/10.1080/1753...
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More trouble than previously thought
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A̴̙̅Ǩ̸̫A̵̭̍ ̵̖̃F̴̛͈ȧ̸͙b̶̦́ï̵͙a̵̜̾n̸̰͠ ̸̘̾M̷̟͠u̴͉̇n̷̥͝i̷̻͆e̸̮̾ŝ̵̲a̴̹͌ @provokedeconomy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A Journal of Cultural Economy (@jcultecon.bsky.social) forum on 'Paranoid Finance', Polity (@politybooks.bsky.social), 2024 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Amin Samman @aminsamman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Review symposium on Fabian Muniesa's 2024 book "Paranoid Finance" is now out in @jcultecon.bsky.social. I had a lot of fun writing my response, "Criticism and schizophrenia", which is linked to below along with the other two pieces and Fabian's reply. Check it out!
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Michael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Great thread linking to a review symposium on the book Paranoid Finance done within the Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social! Absolutely love it when journals foster an in-depth look at a topic or issue or book like this! Looking forward to reading this all!
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Rasmus Fleischer @rsmsflschr.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Ja, varför går priserna på kollektivtrafik ständigt upp? En ledtråd gavs just av sociologen Anders Paulsson i @jcultecon.bsky.social: index! Tack vare att transportföretagens ersättningar enligt avtal baseras på en viss "indexkorg" kan de bli inflationens vinnare. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Material consequences: the return of inflation and the value of price indexation
Inflation is not merely a shift in the value of money, it is also involving a redistribution of value. While some groups are severely affected by inflation, others profit from it. So, who bears the...
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
JCE eds and their companions trying to live
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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Saw this yesterday on @jcultecon.bsky.social field trip. Seeing shale bing extraction history when you can see greendykes bing to the north is a thing
Text of extraction exhibitPhoto taken of top of greendykes Bing
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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This Friday at 10.30 BST 🥁 Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon will be at Edinburgh Futures Institute to talk about their new book lnkd.in/ek6i8ERY . In person spaces are strictly limited but you can join online: www.linkedin.com/posts/liz-mc...
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Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon - discuss their new book Fintech Capital book | Liz Mcfall
This Friday at 10.30 BST 🥁 Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon will be at Edinburgh Futures Institute to talk about their new book https://lnkd.in/ek6i8ERY . In person spaces are strictly limited but you ...
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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
‘Edinburgh has been blessed since 1925 with an innovative leader in the darts and television retail industry.’ Irvine Welsh and Kevin Williamson’s Visitors Guide to Edinburgh 1995 a snip at £42 ebay.us/m/WTq6E4
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🍽️ What happens when parenting becomes an economic project? @joedeville.bsky.social @ninabandelj.bsky.social talk to @philiproscoe.bsky.social & @addiemcgowan.bsky.social about how parenting is shaped by markets, metrics, and digital platforms. youtu.be/otObwf4tStY?...
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The calculated child: The emotional-economic logics of parenting
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
👻 What do ghosts, empires, and financial capital have in common? @cleabourne.bsky.social Paul Gilbert & Eleanor Newbigin chat to @addiemcgowan.bsky.social & @philiproscoe.bsky.social about how colonial legacies haunt contemporary financial systems and cultural policy. youtu.be/FsYwpQhMNtE?...
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Empire’s ghostly afterlives: from financial markets to creative industries
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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
A peek into who owes what and to whom @tobyn.bsky.social giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... lions and tigers and bears oh my
Credit growth chart available at linkWho owes what to whom chart
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
slop frankencitation is bad but this is just weird one of tenties of identically worded applications in the last few months for a non-existent vacancy that we never advertised ---@benpatrickwill.bsky.social
one of many identically worded letters of application to serve on the board
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
And this too is the origin story of JCE as you can read in @tgpb.bsky.social brilliant account open access here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Undoing cultural studies: cultural economy at the Open University (1979–1997)
This introduction article establishes the territory for the Symposium What Was Cultural Economy? After setting out the reasoning behind the collection and its eight contributions, the introduction ...
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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This makes me happy and incredibly sad for what we let go … for how impossible it would be to set up anything with the intellectual, pedagogic, democratic vision of the OU now www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Milton Keynes statue honours Open University founder
The statue celebrates the life of an MP who was behind the creation of the university.
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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This was a bit of a labour. First drafted in the first days of the trump in a fever that is largely gone from this version. But insurance, finance, theory and a Stuart hall cameo survive if you like that kind of thing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance
There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmental...
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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Recently published in @jcultecon.bsky.social: @vkluzik.bsky.social on the genealogy of the concept of "carrying capacity" and how it was seized and shaped by both ecologists and economists. Must read for anyone interested in the links between population and the environment. doi.org/10.1080/1753...

From Malthus to planetary boundaries: the genealogy of ‘carrying capacity’ as a political technology
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How much is too much? The concept ‘carrying capacity’, believed to be first employed in the context of shipping in the nineteenth century, became a key element of Neo-Malthusianism of the 1960s and 1970s, which aimed to curb surplus populations against the backdrop of looming ecological collapse. Adopting an approach that merges a Foucauldian governmentality perspective with Science and Technology Studies (STS) sensitivities, the article investigates the lively genealogy of how ecologists and economists approached the ‘population problem’ through ‘capacity thinking’ to envisage, model, and predict planetary futures. By examining several discursive constellations from the 1920s to the 2000s, the paper illuminates the ascendancy of ‘carrying capacity’ as a ‘fixed ideal’ and a ‘political technology’ that traverses scientific disciplines and societal discourses. This exploration unfolds the presumably simultaneous economization of the environment vis-à-vis the environmentalization of economics, cautioning against claims of a hybridization of these interlinked yet distinct processes. This retro- and prospective analysis unfolds both the ascendancy and the persistence of ‘carrying thinking’ by illuminating how contemporary rationalities of ‘capacity thinking’ are echoed in conceptions of planetary boundaries, circular economy, as well as right-wing and techno-libertarian visions of economic and ecological futures.
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Bård Lahn @bard.lahn.no · 27/02/2026
Check out this podcast with colleagues @stistien.bsky.social and Kristin Asdal on climate finance over at @jcultecon.bsky.social
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Kath Bassett @kathrithm.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Excited and honoured to now be an Associate Editor for JCE! 😊
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
🥁 We have had a lot of changes in our editorial line-up in the last few months - check out the new host of AEs www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjc... including @taschn.bsky.social @provokedeconomy.bsky.social Janet Roitman @kathrithm.bsky.social Horacio Ortiz and Lena Pelladini-Simanyi 🥳
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Oh hi Dandelion
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Philip Roscoe @philiproscoe.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
How neoliberalism runs on resentment and climate risk is the hope of never doing politics. The latest episode of Cultural Economy in the Kitchen, the podcast fro @jcultecon.bsky.social @addiemcgowan.bsky.social with Justin Leifso, Stine Englen and Kristin Asdal. youtu.be/56hI-_Drx3k
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When the planet hits the balance sheet
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 20/02/2026
Such a good piece today from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com which shows that the declining graduate premium is very much a UK problem rather than a general (or inevevitable) consequence of more people going to uni www.ft.com/content/649d...
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Our slightly exhausted blog has woken up and is now updating www.journalofculturaleconomy.org
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
You can listen on all the usual podcast channels and watch on YouTube youtu.be/56hI-_Drx3k?... @stistien.bsky.social @leifso.bsky.social
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When the planet hits the balance sheet
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
🔥new episode out this very morning! ‘When the planet hits the balance sheet’ feat. Kristin Asdal & @stistien.bsky.social Stine Engen - hosted as ever by @philiproscoe.bsky.social @addiemcgowan.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4WqW...
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
not widely known that we are a dog centred journal just ask dog whispering EIC @philiproscoe.bsky.social
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Ted Palenski @tedpal.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This reminds me of a provocation from @allartmarkets.bsky.social at a recent talk on aI: While we've all come to understand the narrative of inevitability, we must also explore the finance narratives. How do groups, money conspire to make all other narratives possible? Such a complex topic...
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The more AI becomes infrastructural the more likely we are to encounter scams and fraud..’We absolutely are moving into an era where we're going to have to recalibrate our epistemologies in just about every aspect of our lives’ 🎧our AE @lanalanalana.bsky.social on www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...
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AI vibe scamming is here
AI coding agents make it possible for anyone to build a sophisticated-looking website, including scammers.
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delaeconomia @delaeconomia.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
estudiosdelaeconomia.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/p... @jcultecon.bsky.social media empire extended with a podcast. Hosted expertly by @philiproscoe.bsky.social and @addiemcgowan.bsky.social
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Podcast: Cultural Economy in The Kitchen
[Journal of Cultural Economy comenzó un podcast Cultural Economy in The Kitchen, disponible en Spotify, Apple Podcast y en YouTube. Abajo la descripción y el video del primer episodio que además co…
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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
"Nothing short of a revolution in the way we design and build our homes can safeguard our standard of living." Valerie Singleton and Brian Widlake announce The Money Programme's most ambitious feature to date: Futurehome 2000. youtu.be/yvUT36jJaMA?...
Screenshot of BBC doc in 1981 showing Valerie Singleton and a model of a future home being built in MK
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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
And on that note, Milton Keynes MKDC with big dreams for houses & energy in 1981 (some of the houses featured are still 🤩) bsky.app/profile/bft....
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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
This otoh giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... brings Aviva, L&G, USS & Labour Together, um together, in lobbying for a weak revivalist version of the development corporation that made Milton Keynes & I don’t hate that for them
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Ease borrowing curbs for development schemes, gilt investors urge Reeves
Aviva and Legal & General warn chancellor that push to boost growth will be inhibited without change
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Jeremy Brice @jeremybrice.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
A real pleasure to join Addie, Philip & my co-editor @taschn.bsky.social on the JCE podcast to talk about our recent special issue on Digital Eating. Listen along to learn what digital eating is, where digital marketplaces and athletic eaters fit into it & why I'm currently living off lentil curry!
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
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Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
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