Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou is Professor of Economy and Society at University College London, Founding Director of the UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies, and Chair of the Global Consortium for Rethinking Capitalism. His books include Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World(University of Chicago Press, 2022) and TRADING TRUTH (forthcoming with MIT Press). His work has appeared in international media such as The New Yorker, The Guardian, DIE ZEIT, EL PAIS, elDiario, London Review of Books and Bookforum, and has been showcased on platforms such as Whitechapel Gallery, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, and the Locarno Film Festival.In 2024/25 Aris was Research Chair of the programme Futures of Capitalism at The New Institute in Hamburg.
Upcoming book —
Trading Truth
How financial markets fuel conspiracy culture and our crisis of truth—and why rethinking finance is democracy’s most urgent need.
“An important book showing that ‘post-truth politics’ cannot be understood without studying the broader socioeconomic transformation of our times, especially the rise of finance. A must-read.”
– Thomas Piketty
“Why has truth become so unstable in our time? Trading Truth offers a bold and startling answer: financial markets do not simply reflect reality; they actively produce it. Moving brilliantly from MAGA and crypto to climate risk, Komporozos-Athanasiou reveals how finance turns uncertainty and distortion into political power. This book is an indispensable guide to financial populism and the epistemic machinery of twenty-first-century capitalism.”
– Kohei Saito
