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001386690 24500 $$aAssetization :$$bturning things into assets in technoscientific capitalism /$$cedited by Kean Birch and Fabian Muniesa.
001386690 264_1 $$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$$bThe MIT Press,$$c[2020]
001386690 300__ $$a1 online resource.
001386690 4901_ $$aInside technology
001386690 520__ $$a"This is a professional edited collection for the Inside Technology series looking at what the editors call assetization. They ask: what lies in the wake of commodification? How should we characterize and analyze technoscientific capitalism in the era of Uber and Airbnb, the business model sorcery of giants like Google and Genentech, rising immaterial and cognitive labor productivity represented by the explosion in Big Data, and the construction of population behavior as money-making resource? The editors define an asset as something-a piece of land, a skill or experience, a sum of money, a bodily function or affective personality, a life form, a patent or copyright, etc.-that can be owned or controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream, often involving the valuation of discounted future earnings in the present. Assets can certainly be bought and sold, yes. But the point is to get a durable rent from them, not to sell them away in the market today. How do things become assets, then? They are made so: the asset form is not, it is important to stress, the consequence of some inherent or embodied quality. The intention of this volume is to show how assets are constructed, how a variety of things are and can be turned into assets, examining the interests, activities, skills, organizations, and relations entangled in this process. Another is to stress that technoscientific capitalism entails specific practices that make the uncertainty inherent in innovation understandable and calculable as part of a broader capitalist system. The asset form reflects the tumult in contemporary technoscientific capitalism, in which it becomes harder and harder to draw clear boundaries around what counts as or comes to constitute capitalism How different is assetization from commodification? Which kind of legal constructions, political arrangements, and economic operations does it entail? Where does it find justification? What kind of critique does it call for? The research gathered in this edited volume opens directions in order to tackle these problems from a critical, qualitative perspective"--$$cProvided by publisher.
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001386690 650_0 $$aSocial capital (Sociology)
001386690 650_0 $$aCommodification.
001386690 650_0 $$aTechnology$$xSocial aspects.
001386690 650_0 $$aTemporary employment.
001386690 650_0 $$aNew business enterprises.
001386690 650_0 $$aUncertainty.
001386690 650_0 $$aCapitalism.
001386690 653__ $$aSCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
001386690 653__ $$aECONOMICS/Economic History
001386690 653__ $$aECONOMICS/Finance
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001386690 7001_ $$aBirch, Kean,$$eeditor.
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001386690 85640 $$3MIT Press$$uhttps://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12075.001.0001?locatt=mode:legacy$$zOnline Access through The MIT Press Direct
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