Fabian Muniesa
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 78524 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Fabian Muniesa |
| NOMBRES | Fabian |
| APELLIDO | Muniesa |
| FIRMA | MUNIESA F |
| AFILIACIONES | École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8756-3241 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1393 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
More trouble than previously thought
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Finance, paranoïa et radicalisation de la valeur
Les mouvements réactionnaires qui prospèrent aujourd’hui, partout dans le monde, constituent-ils une critique de la finance ? Ou bien représentent-ils plutôt une radicalisation de l’imagination financière ? S’exprimant souvent au travers d’une anxiété paranoïaque, le rapport à la valeur y est souvent central. Un examen de quelques variantes conspirationnistes (par exemple au sein du « mouvement des citoyens souverains ») permet d’y déceler les te…
Inimitié de la valeur
Do we need to rid the critique of finance from the notion of value? This polemical essay offers a few thoughts in that direction. The jargon of “value creation” maintains critique within the perimeter of financial imagination. It delineates a political horizon made of exclusion and violence. It prevents us from thinking a way out from outside the imperative of return on investment
Finance
What is the use of calling ‘cultural’ the set of habits, worldviews, practices, struggles and processes that go today by the name of ‘finance’? Cannot the subject matter be dealt with more aptly with the word ‘political’, especially if the objective is to add some critical traction and contribute to political articulation? Drawing from a few old conversations on the subject matter (and from a couple of arguably new problems), a plea for the ‘cult…
Valuation as a Semiotic, Narrative, and Dramaturgical Problem
Value is, at least in part, about signs.But then the study of valuation as a problem requires confronting the multifarious debates on the meaning of signification.Several paths have been opened already, with many studies of valuation drawing from various traditions in semiotics, resulting in different understandings of what value assign is and does.And a similar point can be made about narration.Valuation is a narrative accomplishment and therefo…
A science of stereotypes
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Anthropologie critique de la valeur
La valeur est aujourd’hui une notion incontournable en finance comme en politique. Dans cet entretien, Fabian Muniesa cherche à rendre compte des conséquences de cette focalisation sur la notion de valeur et propose de la déconstruire à partir d’une perspective d’anthropologie critique
Revaluation fantasy
Financial conspiracies today blend together antisemitic tropes and spiritual visions with ideals of political reform and economic salvation. It is tempting to locate such phenomena at the periphery of the financial order, situating them within a delusional space beyond judicious concepts of money, finance, wealth, and value. But is also possible to take paranoid finance as an extreme, radical appropriation of a logic inherent in finance
Attention aux mots d’ordre ! Éléments pour une enquête sur la signification de l’État
L’État se voit souvent interprété selon l’angle du « mot d’ordre » : son sens est ainsi décodé à partir du faisceau d’instructions qui en feraient un État tantôt « providence », « stratège », « policier », « colonial », « démocratique », « autoritaire » ou « néolibéral ». Cet angle est privilégié pour l’interprétation de situations de réforme ou de modernisation dans lesquelles l’État se soumet à un exercice d’explicitation de son nouveau caractè…
Paranoid Finance
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The Test Bed Island
Islands imaginaries are imaginaries of exception, in the dual sense that islands are seen as places like no others (exceptional territories) as well as sites of exceptions to known orders of things (territories of exceptions). In Singapore, these two modalities of exception play a key role in Smart Nation, a program launched by the government in 2014 which shapes the island as an exceptional place for technology-oriented experiments meant for bus…
Assetization
How the asset—anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream—has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines argue that the asset—meaning anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream—has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism. An asset can be an object or an experience, a sum of money or a life form, a pat…
Introduction
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Do Economists Make Markets
Exercising knowledge of costs
The time that money requires
The future is persistently considered in the sociology of finance from two divergent, problematic angles. The second approach, often labelled critical, sees on the contrary in the logic of finance a negation of the future and an exacerbation of the valuation of the present. This is an impasse the response to which resides, we suggest, in considering the language of future value, which is indeed inherent to a financial view on things, as a politic…
Société du comportement, information de la sociologie
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Is ANT a critique of capital?
Is actor-network theory of use for a critique of capital? Is the critique of capital something that can make sense within the ANT mind? A close look at the economic preoccupations that have characterised the work of Bruno Latour and Michel Callon within this tradition serves here the purpose of highlighting a possible thread in this direction: Namely in the direction of considering capital as an operation of translation. Three historical periods …
Cheers to the Friends (of the Enemies) of Value
Last year, 2017, was a fine year for value connoisseurs in France. Plenty on this was found on the shelves of the bookstores in the Latin Quarter in Paris, most of it irremediably tainted with the sour tinge of a 'critique of'. Giacomo Todeschini's Les marchands et le temple [The Merchants and the Temple], an implacable examination of the formation of the ethics of money in medieval Christianity (translated from the Italian with a foreword by Tho…
Five years! Have we not had enough of valuation studies by now
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Attempting to Bring Valuation and Politics Together
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On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation
Of the many ideas that control economic reasoning and the policies that go with it, that of 'value creation' is certainly a most intriguing one. Something called 'value' is assumed to be 'created
The live act of business and the culture of realization
International audience
On brutal culture
International audience
Twilight in the leadership playground
What sort of reality is produced and conveyed to the business trainee through the set of pedagogical techniques that characterize the experiential business curriculum, and how does immersion in this particular kind of reality configure the business self? This essay discusses some of the rhetorical and theatrical contrivances that are used to generate artificial business situations in which the student can experience a moment of decision and test …
Peripheral Vision
How to address empirically the calculative character of markets without dissolving it? In our paper, we propose a theoretical framework that helps to deal with markets without suspending their calculative properties. In the first section, we construct a broad definition of calculation, grounded on the anthropology of science and techniques. In the next sections, we apply this definition to three constitutive elements of markets: economic goods, e…
An Introduction to Market Devices
Market technologies and the pragmatics of prices
This article contributes to a pragmatist analysis of pricing and valuation through an account of the production of closing prices at the Paris Bourse. The Paris Bourse is an electronic stock exchange and the actors in charge of its technological configuration often need to face concerns about the quality of the prices that the configuration produces. Closing prices are particularly important because they constitute references that circulate widel…
Les marchés économiques comme dispositifs collectifs de calcul
Comment aborder empiriquement le caractère calculateur des marchés sans pour autant le dissoudre ? Dans cet article, les auteurs proposent un cadre théorique qui permette d'analyser des marchés sans négliger ses propriétés calculatrices concrètes. Dans une première section, ils construisent une définition large de « calcul », basée sur les enseignements de la sociologie des sciences et des techniques. Dans les sections suivantes, ils confrontent …
For What It’s Worth
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A Flank Movement in the Understanding of Valuation
The sociological understanding of valuation often starts with an idea of value as something that something has by virtue of how people consider it (that is, it is socially constructed, a convention, a social representation, a projection). At some point, however, analysis also often draws a contrast between this sort of appraisal and some other type of value that the thing may have as a result of its own condition (what it costs, how it is made, w…
On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation
Of the many ideas that control economic reasoning and the policies that go with it, that of 'value creation' is certainly a most intriguing one. Something called 'value' is assumed to be 'created
How Users Matter
Oudshoorn, Nelly and Pinch, Trevor (eds) How Users Matter: The Co-construction of Users and Technologies MIT Press 2002 340 pp. £ 25.95 (hardback) Use stands, from many angles, as a privileged object for sociological inquiry. It is in use that people characterize their relationship to objects and attribute values to them. Use is also something that we teach and are taught about, something that we may impose or contest. But, in order to cope with …
The time that money requires
The future is persistently considered in the sociology of finance from two divergent, problematic angles. The second approach, often labelled critical, sees on the contrary in the logic of finance a negation of the future and an exacerbation of the valuation of the present. This is an impasse the response to which resides, we suggest, in considering the language of future value, which is indeed inherent to a financial view on things, as a politic…
Provocative Containment and the Drift of Social-Scientific Realism
The post-World War II period gave rise to a large number of social-scientific techniques for investigating and intervening in social reality. A particular group of these, exemplified here by the experiments of Moreno, Lewin, Bion, Milgram and Zimbardo, worked by establishing suggestive micro-realities in which participants were exposed to, or experimented with, selected ‘social problems’. We investigate the nature of these techniques – being simu…
Un robot walrasien. Cotation électronique et justesse de la découverte des prix
Un robot walrasien. Cotation électronique et justesse de la découverte des prix Fabian Muniesa L'article interroge le thème de l'informatisation et l'automatisation des marchés financiers à travers un élément particulier : sa relation avec un certain « effet de justesse » dans ce que les économistes appellent « découverte des prix ». Nous exploitons pour cela le cas de l'automatisation de la cotation à la Bourse de Paris. L'article montre, dans u…
Becoming a Measuring Instrument
This article provides an ethnographic examination of olfactory consumer testing in the perfume industry. What kind of reality is generated within such practices? The analysis is focused on one particular testing method used in order to assess the hedonic performance of fine fragrances. The authors observe what happens inside the testing venue. The article concentrates on the problem of the simulacrum (how the reality provoked within the test may …
Contenir le marché
À la Bourse de Paris, dans les années 1980, le marché à la criée fut totalement remplacé par un système de cotation électronique (Cac). Dans cet article, nous nous intéressons aux circonstances qui ont rendu possible cette transition. Nous étudions les divers compromis, à la fois sociaux et techniques, que les responsables de cette innovation ont construits dans le but de stabiliser le nouveau dispositif marchand. Il s’agissait notamment, pour eu…
Twilight in the leadership playground
What sort of reality is produced and conveyed to the business trainee through the set of pedagogical techniques that characterize the experiential business curriculum, and how does immersion in this particular kind of reality configure the business self? This essay discusses some of the rhetorical and theatrical contrivances that are used to generate artificial business situations in which the student can experience a moment of decision and test …
The Test Bed Island
Islands imaginaries are imaginaries of exception, in the dual sense that islands are seen as places like no others (exceptional territories) as well as sites of exceptions to known orders of things (territories of exceptions). In Singapore, these two modalities of exception play a key role in Smart Nation, a program launched by the government in 2014 which shapes the island as an exceptional place for technology-oriented experiments meant for bus…
Du ministère à l'agence
Les études se multiplient qui constatent que l'État, qui a émergé de la modernité comme une réalité essentiellement politique, est aujourd'hui traversé par des logiques hétéronomes qui puisent leur inspiration dans les savoirs de management. Plus rares sont en revanche les études qui cherchent concrètement à observer et à documenter le passage d'une définition politique à une définition gestionnaire de l'État, et les incertitudes auxquelles cette…
Paranoid Finance
International audience
The live act of business and the culture of realization
International audience
La volatilité des postes
Job volatility. After having situated computerization of the financial markets in its historical and international contexts, the authors attempt to understand some of the effects produced by this change in two places. In the dealing room of a large Paris bank, local history, the organization of work, and the use and mastery of computers indicate a symbolic and economic dividing line between two groups : engineers (R&D engineers and financial cons…
Finance
What is the use of calling ‘cultural’ the set of habits, worldviews, practices, struggles and processes that go today by the name of ‘finance’? Cannot the subject matter be dealt with more aptly with the word ‘political’, especially if the objective is to add some critical traction and contribute to political articulation? Drawing from a few old conversations on the subject matter (and from a couple of arguably new problems), a plea for the ‘cult…
Tenir lieu de politique
Conçu dans une perspective introductive, cet article se propose de mettre en lumière certains enseignements qui émergent des différentes contributions qui composent le dossier sur les « politiques d'économisation ». En partant du constat que celles-ci mettent en jeu une forme paradoxale de politisation, l'objet est d'attirer l'attention sur trois figures analytiques qui se retrouvent, à des degrés divers et suivant différentes modalités, dans l'e…
You must fall down the rabbit hole
International audience
Javier Izquierdo and the methodology of reality
International audience
A science of stereotypes
International audience
Revaluation fantasy
Financial conspiracies today blend together antisemitic tropes and spiritual visions with ideals of political reform and economic salvation. It is tempting to locate such phenomena at the periphery of the financial order, situating them within a delusional space beyond judicious concepts of money, finance, wealth, and value. But is also possible to take paranoid finance as an extreme, radical appropriation of a logic inherent in finance
Un robot walrasien. Cotation électronique et justesse de la découverte des prix
Un robot walrasien. Cotation électronique et justesse de la découverte des prix Fabian Muniesa L'article interroge le thème de l'informatisation et l'automatisation des marchés financiers à travers un élément particulier : sa relation avec un certain « effet de justesse » dans ce que les économistes appellent « découverte des prix ». Nous exploitons pour cela le cas de l'automatisation de la cotation à la Bourse de Paris. L'article montre, dans u…
La volatilité des postes
Job volatility. After having situated computerization of the financial markets in its historical and international contexts, the authors attempt to understand some of the effects produced by this change in two places. In the dealing room of a large Paris bank, local history, the organization of work, and the use and mastery of computers indicate a symbolic and economic dividing line between two groups : engineers (R&D engineers and financial cons…
Présentation
Comment les huissiers de justice parviennent-ils à recouvrer les créances ? Pour rendre compte de cette activité professionnelle et de ses conditions de réussite, l’auteur propose de s’intéresser aux rôles tenus par les protagonistes des situations de recouvrement. L’analyse des matériaux empiriques recueillis laisse apparaître que les savoirs constitutifs de la compétence professionnelle de l’huissier de justice sont irréductibles à l’applicatio…
Les marchés économiques comme dispositifs collectifs de calcul
Comment aborder empiriquement le caractère calculateur des marchés sans pour autant le dissoudre ? Dans cet article, les auteurs proposent un cadre théorique qui permette d'analyser des marchés sans négliger ses propriétés calculatrices concrètes. Dans une première section, ils construisent une définition large de « calcul », basée sur les enseignements de la sociologie des sciences et des techniques. Dans les sections suivantes, ils confrontent …
How Users Matter
Oudshoorn, Nelly and Pinch, Trevor (eds) How Users Matter: The Co-construction of Users and Technologies MIT Press 2002 340 pp. £ 25.95 (hardback) Use stands, from many angles, as a privileged object for sociological inquiry. It is in use that people characterize their relationship to objects and attribute values to them. Use is also something that we teach and are taught about, something that we may impose or contest. But, in order to cope with …
Contenir le marché
À la Bourse de Paris, dans les années 1980, le marché à la criée fut totalement remplacé par un système de cotation électronique (Cac). Dans cet article, nous nous intéressons aux circonstances qui ont rendu possible cette transition. Nous étudions les divers compromis, à la fois sociaux et techniques, que les responsables de cette innovation ont construits dans le but de stabiliser le nouveau dispositif marchand. Il s’agissait notamment, pour eu…
Peripheral Vision
How to address empirically the calculative character of markets without dissolving it? In our paper, we propose a theoretical framework that helps to deal with markets without suspending their calculative properties. In the first section, we construct a broad definition of calculation, grounded on the anthropology of science and techniques. In the next sections, we apply this definition to three constitutive elements of markets: economic goods, e…
Donner un prix
Un dispositif d'economie experimentale mis en place pour evaluer les dispositions a payer de consommateurs de produits sans OGM est utilise dans cet article comme terrain d'observation d'une operation rarement decrite : l'appreciation, au sens propre de donner un prix ou plus general d'evaluer. Le dispositif etudie, a la fois riche, soigne, et procedant par de nombreuses etapes successives, permet de rendre visible cette competence generalement a…
An Introduction to Market Devices
Market technologies and the pragmatics of prices
This article contributes to a pragmatist analysis of pricing and valuation through an account of the production of closing prices at the Paris Bourse. The Paris Bourse is an electronic stock exchange and the actors in charge of its technological configuration often need to face concerns about the quality of the prices that the configuration produces. Closing prices are particularly important because they constitute references that circulate widel…
Do Economists Make Markets?
The description of financial objects
International audience
Débordements
MICHEL CALLON a marqué les sciences humaines et sociales par sa production académique, par ses activités d’animateur de la communauté scientifique et par son rôle de médiateur entre la recherche et le monde de la politique, de l’administration et de l’entreprise. Il a multiplié les espaces d’entente et de confrontation, en se déplaçant aussi bien sur le terrain de la sociologie que sur celui des politiques de recherche et d’innovation, de l’anthr…
Becoming a Measuring Instrument
This article provides an ethnographic examination of olfactory consumer testing in the perfume industry. What kind of reality is generated within such practices? The analysis is focused on one particular testing method used in order to assess the hedonic performance of fine fragrances. The authors observe what happens inside the testing venue. The article concentrates on the problem of the simulacrum (how the reality provoked within the test may …
Trials of explicitness in the implementation of public management reform
A Flank Movement in the Understanding of Valuation
The sociological understanding of valuation often starts with an idea of value as something that something has by virtue of how people consider it (that is, it is socially constructed, a convention, a social representation, a projection). At some point, however, analysis also often draws a contrast between this sort of appraisal and some other type of value that the thing may have as a result of its own condition (what it costs, how it is made, w…
Tenir lieu de politique
Conçu dans une perspective introductive, cet article se propose de mettre en lumière certains enseignements qui émergent des différentes contributions qui composent le dossier sur les « politiques d'économisation ». En partant du constat que celles-ci mettent en jeu une forme paradoxale de politisation, l'objet est d'attirer l'attention sur trois figures analytiques qui se retrouvent, à des degrés divers et suivant différentes modalités, dans l'e…
Du ministère à l'agence
Les études se multiplient qui constatent que l'État, qui a émergé de la modernité comme une réalité essentiellement politique, est aujourd'hui traversé par des logiques hétéronomes qui puisent leur inspiration dans les savoirs de management. Plus rares sont en revanche les études qui cherchent concrètement à observer et à documenter le passage d'une définition politique à une définition gestionnaire de l'État, et les incertitudes auxquelles cette…
Javier Izquierdo and the methodology of reality
International audience
Traité de sociologie économique
Bibliographie
(Abolafia, 1997) Abolafia, Mitchel Y. Making Markets : Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street. Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press. (Adelman, (1959), 1966) Adelman, Morris A. A&P. A Study in Price-Cost Behavior and Public Policy. Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press. (Adler & Friedlander, 1980) Adler, Richard & Friedlander, Bernard. The Effects of Television Advertising on Children. Lexington (Mass.), Lexington Books, 367. (Agamb…
Préambule
Qu’est-ce que le marché ? Dès le début des années 1980, Michel Callon et les chercheurs du centre de sociologie de l’innovation (CSI) de l’école des mines se sont penchés sur cette question si peu discutée par les recherches en économie, dans le prolongement des travaux qu’ils menaient autour de la sociologie de la traduction, dite encore théorie de l’acteur réseau (ou Actor Network Theory). Cette sociologie des marchés, reconsidérant les réseaux…
Sociologie des agencements marchands
Qu'est-ce que le marché ? Depuis une quinzaine d'années, Michel Callon et les chercheurs du centre de sociologie de l'innovation (CSI) de l'école des mines se penchent sur cette question si peu discutée par les recherches en économie ; ils l'interrogent dans le prolongement des travaux qu'ils menaient autour de la sociologie de la traduction, dite encore théorie de l'acteur-réseau (ou Actor-Network Theory). Ces nouveaux travaux se caractérisent p…
Valuation Studies and the Spectacle of Valuation
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The Conditional Sink
This paper examines counterfactual display in the valuation of carbon offsetting projects. Considered a legitimate way to encourage climate change mitigation, such projects rely on the establishment of procedures for the prospective assessment of their capacity to become carbon sinks. This requires imagining possible worlds and assessing their plausibility. The world inhabited by the project is articulated through conditional formulation and subj…
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