{"id":1701,"date":"2013-04-17T16:59:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charisma.local\/charisma2023\/char1smaSSL\/?post_type=markets&p=1701"},"modified":"2013-04-17T16:59:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:59:36","slug":"where-do-neoliberals-go-after-the-market-calculation-computation-and-crisis","status":"publish","type":"markets","link":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/markets\/where-do-neoliberals-go-after-the-market-calculation-computation-and-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Where Do Neoliberals Go After the Market? Calculation, computation and crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A one-day conference organised by Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies<\/a>, University of Warwick<\/p>\n

13th June 2013
\n10am-6.30pm
\nRoom S0.21<\/strong><\/p?\n\n<\/div>\n

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Neoliberalism is commonly identified as a belief in the self-regulating powers of markets, especially financial markets. Markets, from this perspective, are powerful information-processors, which are uniquely capable of governing complex societies while preserving liberty. In recent decades, financial institutions have added further computational power, which, among other things, has led to the automation of trading and the calculation and simulation of market scenarios to manage risk. The financial crisis has been perceived by some as the outcome of this collision between markets and increasingly \u2018performative\u2019 economics.<\/span><\/p>\n

But where does this leave neoliberalism and its technical ideal of freedom? Does it simply require more markets or greater computational power to prevent future crises? Or are we witnessing the emergence of a different neoliberalism, based on different technologies and ideologies of liberty, in appeals to \u2018Big Data\u2019 and \u2018openness\u2019? Might software and \u2018open data\u2019 usurp the primacy of the price system in the neoliberal imagination, as tools of governance in complex modern societies? To what extent are the political desires of the digital elite \u2013 from Hackers to Silicon Valley \u2013 amenable to the neoliberal project?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This one-day conference will address these questions from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including software studies, history of economics, political theory, media theory, international political economy and economic sociology.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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