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Apr 23, 2016

Financial Markets and the Technospheres they constitute

In this enlightening lecture, sociologist Karin Knorr Cetina elaborates on three developmental stages in technology that enable the global financial market, and the foreign exchange market in particular. Through her explorations of streams, scopes, symbols, and the algorithms mobilizing these, she describes the conceptual and temporal worlds used to trade currencies and pollution certificates and what kind of credit-based technosphere arises from their systemic enclosures.

This lecture was first published in the Risk Equipment Dossier of the Technosphere Magazine.