Ute Tellmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 236494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ute Tellmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ute |
| FAMILY NAME | Tellmann |
| SIGNATURE | TELLMANN U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The challenges of assets: Anatomy of an economic form
In recent years, the terms ‘asset’, ‘assetization’, ‘asset form’ and ‘asset condition’ have gained prominence. Closely related to established notions of financialization and capitalization, they promise novel analytical insights into these processes. Why has assetization assumed such an important role in the social studies of finance, geography, sociology, political economy and beyond, both conceptually and empirically? Introducing our special se…
The politics of assetization: From devices of calculation to devices of obligation
This article develops a new theoretical perspective on the politics of financialization with housing as its specific case. The argument uses the recent debate on assets and assetization in the Social Studies of Finance as a starting point. In this debate, the asset is introduced vis-à-vis the commodity as a fruitful analytical category. The article argues that the suggested shift from the commodity to the asset allows for a novel understanding of…
Immunization, sensibility, and the ressentiments of finance
Vogl describes how digital economies and current financialization have a common genealogy that hinges on protocol and information. How should we understand the anatomy of power that governs this contemporary configuration? As argued in this review, the notion of 'immunity' can help illuminate the techniques of power at work in digital economies, social media, and finance
Beyond performativity: Material futures of finance
In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, temporality and futurity have become key terms in efforts to rethink finance. Thus far, the debate has revolved around the question of how knowledge practices or their functional equivalents – such as trust, hope, imagination and affect – mitigate uncertainty and enact futurity. This paper argues for a complementary perspective. It proposes a notion of material temporality that focuses not on knowledge…
The matter of forms and the making of time: Thinking about What is an event ? by Robin Wagner-Pacifici
A book with the general title What is an event? seems to travel firmly in the well-worn paths of a debate in social theory that is associated with the names of Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, Brian M
Life and Money: The Genealogy of the Liberal Economy and the Displacement of Politics
Life and Money uncovers the contentious history of the boundary between economy and politics in liberalism. Ute Tellmann traces the shifting ontologies for defining economic necessity. She argues that our understanding of the malleability of economic relations has been displaced by colonial hierarchies of civilization and the biopolitics of the nation. Bringing economics into conversation with political theory, cultural economy, postcolonial thou…
Bruno Latours neue politische Soziologie - Über das Desiderat einer Debatte
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 237 - 248
Politische Ökologie, Kalkulation und die De-Materialisierung der Dingpolitik
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 333 - 352
Historical Ontologies of Uncertainty and Money: Rethinking the Current Critique of Finance
This article examines how the notion of uncertainty is used as a tool of critique in the context of financial crises. It counters the prevalent tendency to understand uncertainty solely in terms of an epistemological limit to knowledge. Uncertainty should rather be seen in the context of different historical ontologies of money and economic subjectivity. The article uses a historical analysis to make its point. It investigates two discourses on u…
Europe as Infrastructure: Networking the Operative Community
This article analyzes how infrastructures take part in constituting Europe as a material collectivity. To that end, it modifies Bruno Latour's sociology of associations in two respects: In order to theorize the relation between connectivity and collectivity, we consider the political rationalities that infrastructures embody and the political spatiality that they configure. This theoretical perspective is put to a test in exploring the "infrastru…
Future Emergencies: Temporal Politics in Law and Economy
This article develops a notion of the 'politics of time' in order to analyse the effects that imaginations of future emergencies have in the fields of law and economy. Building on Niklas Luhmann's theory of social time, it focuses on the multiplex temporalities in contemporary society, which are shown to interact differently with the 'emergency imaginary'. We demonstrate that the apprehension of the future in terms of sudden, unpredictable and po…
Kommentar: The Economic or the Economy? – Reflections on the Objects of Historical Epistemology
In the recent decade the perspectives of historical epistemology have turned economic practices into a novel object of study: the focus lies on how discourses, techniques of measurement and valuation produce economic facts. 1 The research on the historical epistemologies of economic facts belongs to a broader scholarly endeavor that takes place in cultural anthropology, social theory, literary studies, political theory and history. This interdisc…
Catastrophic Populations and the Fear of the Future: Malthus and the Genealogy of Liberal Economy
This article argues that Foucault's account of the intersection between population, liberal economy, and biopolitics needs to be reconstructed in light of Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population. Taking Malthus into account brings to the fore how deeply the question of population is tied to a colonial hierarchy that differentiates between dangerous 'savage' and economic 'civilized' life. 'Savage life' is depicted as a catastrophic form of l…
Operations of the global: Explorations of connectivity
How to think the global – after two decades of globalization studies, this question seems to be far from answered. Instead, it has become a fresh object of inquiry. As many scholars of globalizatio
Global territories: Zones of economic and legal dis/connectivity
This article develops a notion of global territoriality for understanding the proliferation of special offshore zones in the context of globalization. It furnishes an account of how political territoriality is used for shaping global dis/connectivity. The argument is developed through the exploration of two distinct cases of offshore zones that are usually not theorized as a common phenomenon: one case is the financial offshore center on the Caym…
Foucault and the Invisible Economy
This paper discusses the extent to which governmentality provides a critical visibility of the economy beyond its liberal imaginary. It argues that Foucault's conceptual and historical understanding of liberal governmentality has two traits that encumber a de-centering of the economy from a Foucauldian perspective. The first obstacle results from a persistent asymmetry of the concept of governmentality as it remains solely geared towards replacin…
The Truth of the Market
This article argues for a discourse-analytical approach to the market. Using the archaeological method developed by Michel Foucault, it presents an analysis of the figure of the market within the publications of the International Monetary Fund. The market is deciphered as a discursive strategy to monopolize the representation of economic reality. Governed by a “will to truth”, contemporary economic discourse establishes the market as the subject …
Future Emergencies: Temporal Politics in Law and Economy
This article develops a notion of the 'politics of time' in order to analyse the effects that imaginations of future emergencies have in the fields of law and economy. Building on Niklas Luhmann's theory of social time, it focuses on the multiplex temporalities in contemporary society, which are shown to interact differently with the 'emergency imaginary'. We demonstrate that the apprehension of the future in terms of sudden, unpredictable and po…
Beyond performativity: Material futures of finance
In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, temporality and futurity have become key terms in efforts to rethink finance. Thus far, the debate has revolved around the question of how knowledge practices or their functional equivalents – such as trust, hope, imagination and affect – mitigate uncertainty and enact futurity. This paper argues for a complementary perspective. It proposes a notion of material temporality that focuses not on knowledge…
Catastrophic Populations and the Fear of the Future: Malthus and the Genealogy of Liberal Economy
This article argues that Foucault's account of the intersection between population, liberal economy, and biopolitics needs to be reconstructed in light of Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population. Taking Malthus into account brings to the fore how deeply the question of population is tied to a colonial hierarchy that differentiates between dangerous 'savage' and economic 'civilized' life. 'Savage life' is depicted as a catastrophic form of l…
Global territories: Zones of economic and legal dis/connectivity
This article develops a notion of global territoriality for understanding the proliferation of special offshore zones in the context of globalization. It furnishes an account of how political territoriality is used for shaping global dis/connectivity. The argument is developed through the exploration of two distinct cases of offshore zones that are usually not theorized as a common phenomenon: one case is the financial offshore center on the Caym…
The challenges of assets: Anatomy of an economic form
In recent years, the terms ‘asset’, ‘assetization’, ‘asset form’ and ‘asset condition’ have gained prominence. Closely related to established notions of financialization and capitalization, they promise novel analytical insights into these processes. Why has assetization assumed such an important role in the social studies of finance, geography, sociology, political economy and beyond, both conceptually and empirically? Introducing our special se…
Foucault and the Invisible Economy
This paper discusses the extent to which governmentality provides a critical visibility of the economy beyond its liberal imaginary. It argues that Foucault's conceptual and historical understanding of liberal governmentality has two traits that encumber a de-centering of the economy from a Foucauldian perspective. The first obstacle results from a persistent asymmetry of the concept of governmentality as it remains solely geared towards replacin…
The politics of assetization: From devices of calculation to devices of obligation
This article develops a new theoretical perspective on the politics of financialization with housing as its specific case. The argument uses the recent debate on assets and assetization in the Social Studies of Finance as a starting point. In this debate, the asset is introduced vis-à-vis the commodity as a fruitful analytical category. The article argues that the suggested shift from the commodity to the asset allows for a novel understanding of…
Historical Ontologies of Uncertainty and Money: Rethinking the Current Critique of Finance
This article examines how the notion of uncertainty is used as a tool of critique in the context of financial crises. It counters the prevalent tendency to understand uncertainty solely in terms of an epistemological limit to knowledge. Uncertainty should rather be seen in the context of different historical ontologies of money and economic subjectivity. The article uses a historical analysis to make its point. It investigates two discourses on u…
Europe as Infrastructure: Networking the Operative Community
This article analyzes how infrastructures take part in constituting Europe as a material collectivity. To that end, it modifies Bruno Latour's sociology of associations in two respects: In order to theorize the relation between connectivity and collectivity, we consider the political rationalities that infrastructures embody and the political spatiality that they configure. This theoretical perspective is put to a test in exploring the "infrastru…
Operations of the global: Explorations of connectivity
How to think the global – after two decades of globalization studies, this question seems to be far from answered. Instead, it has become a fresh object of inquiry. As many scholars of globalizatio
The matter of forms and the making of time: Thinking about What is an event ? by Robin Wagner-Pacifici
A book with the general title What is an event? seems to travel firmly in the well-worn paths of a debate in social theory that is associated with the names of Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, Brian M
The Truth of the Market
This article argues for a discourse-analytical approach to the market. Using the archaeological method developed by Michel Foucault, it presents an analysis of the figure of the market within the publications of the International Monetary Fund. The market is deciphered as a discursive strategy to monopolize the representation of economic reality. Governed by a “will to truth”, contemporary economic discourse establishes the market as the subject …
Foucault and the Invisible Economy
This paper discusses the extent to which governmentality provides a critical visibility of the economy beyond its liberal imaginary. It argues that Foucault's conceptual and historical understanding of liberal governmentality has two traits that encumber a de-centering of the economy from a Foucauldian perspective. The first obstacle results from a persistent asymmetry of the concept of governmentality as it remains solely geared towards replacin…
Operations of the global: Explorations of connectivity
How to think the global – after two decades of globalization studies, this question seems to be far from answered. Instead, it has become a fresh object of inquiry. As many scholars of globalizatio
Global territories: Zones of economic and legal dis/connectivity
This article develops a notion of global territoriality for understanding the proliferation of special offshore zones in the context of globalization. It furnishes an account of how political territoriality is used for shaping global dis/connectivity. The argument is developed through the exploration of two distinct cases of offshore zones that are usually not theorized as a common phenomenon: one case is the financial offshore center on the Caym…
Catastrophic Populations and the Fear of the Future: Malthus and the Genealogy of Liberal Economy
This article argues that Foucault's account of the intersection between population, liberal economy, and biopolitics needs to be reconstructed in light of Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population. Taking Malthus into account brings to the fore how deeply the question of population is tied to a colonial hierarchy that differentiates between dangerous 'savage' and economic 'civilized' life. 'Savage life' is depicted as a catastrophic form of l…
Kommentar: The Economic or the Economy? – Reflections on the Objects of Historical Epistemology
In the recent decade the perspectives of historical epistemology have turned economic practices into a novel object of study: the focus lies on how discourses, techniques of measurement and valuation produce economic facts. 1 The research on the historical epistemologies of economic facts belongs to a broader scholarly endeavor that takes place in cultural anthropology, social theory, literary studies, political theory and history. This interdisc…
Europe as Infrastructure: Networking the Operative Community
This article analyzes how infrastructures take part in constituting Europe as a material collectivity. To that end, it modifies Bruno Latour's sociology of associations in two respects: In order to theorize the relation between connectivity and collectivity, we consider the political rationalities that infrastructures embody and the political spatiality that they configure. This theoretical perspective is put to a test in exploring the "infrastru…
Future Emergencies: Temporal Politics in Law and Economy
This article develops a notion of the 'politics of time' in order to analyse the effects that imaginations of future emergencies have in the fields of law and economy. Building on Niklas Luhmann's theory of social time, it focuses on the multiplex temporalities in contemporary society, which are shown to interact differently with the 'emergency imaginary'. We demonstrate that the apprehension of the future in terms of sudden, unpredictable and po…
Bruno Latours neue politische Soziologie - Über das Desiderat einer Debatte
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 237 - 248
Politische Ökologie, Kalkulation und die De-Materialisierung der Dingpolitik
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 333 - 352
Historical Ontologies of Uncertainty and Money: Rethinking the Current Critique of Finance
This article examines how the notion of uncertainty is used as a tool of critique in the context of financial crises. It counters the prevalent tendency to understand uncertainty solely in terms of an epistemological limit to knowledge. Uncertainty should rather be seen in the context of different historical ontologies of money and economic subjectivity. The article uses a historical analysis to make its point. It investigates two discourses on u…
Life and Money: The Genealogy of the Liberal Economy and the Displacement of Politics
Life and Money uncovers the contentious history of the boundary between economy and politics in liberalism. Ute Tellmann traces the shifting ontologies for defining economic necessity. She argues that our understanding of the malleability of economic relations has been displaced by colonial hierarchies of civilization and the biopolitics of the nation. Bringing economics into conversation with political theory, cultural economy, postcolonial thou…
The matter of forms and the making of time: Thinking about What is an event ? by Robin Wagner-Pacifici
A book with the general title What is an event? seems to travel firmly in the well-worn paths of a debate in social theory that is associated with the names of Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, Brian M
Beyond performativity: Material futures of finance
In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, temporality and futurity have become key terms in efforts to rethink finance. Thus far, the debate has revolved around the question of how knowledge practices or their functional equivalents – such as trust, hope, imagination and affect – mitigate uncertainty and enact futurity. This paper argues for a complementary perspective. It proposes a notion of material temporality that focuses not on knowledge…
The politics of assetization: From devices of calculation to devices of obligation
This article develops a new theoretical perspective on the politics of financialization with housing as its specific case. The argument uses the recent debate on assets and assetization in the Social Studies of Finance as a starting point. In this debate, the asset is introduced vis-à-vis the commodity as a fruitful analytical category. The article argues that the suggested shift from the commodity to the asset allows for a novel understanding of…
Immunization, sensibility, and the ressentiments of finance
Vogl describes how digital economies and current financialization have a common genealogy that hinges on protocol and information. How should we understand the anatomy of power that governs this contemporary configuration? As argued in this review, the notion of 'immunity' can help illuminate the techniques of power at work in digital economies, social media, and finance
The challenges of assets: Anatomy of an economic form
In recent years, the terms ‘asset’, ‘assetization’, ‘asset form’ and ‘asset condition’ have gained prominence. Closely related to established notions of financialization and capitalization, they promise novel analytical insights into these processes. Why has assetization assumed such an important role in the social studies of finance, geography, sociology, political economy and beyond, both conceptually and empirically? Introducing our special se…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works)