I will be presenting part of ongoing work on my current book project REAL FAKE at King’s College London. The focus of my talk will be on financial fraud. I will be offering an alternative history of market manipulation practices, proposing a new framework for their study as a form of financial alchemy, with important implications for understanding the emergence of today’s ‘post-truth’ politics.

Invited talk on my new book project Real Fake: An Intellectual History of Distortion at the Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland.

Invited talk at ‘A map, a model, a fiction’ Symposium, part of the TRANSMEDIALE Festival in the Akademie der Kunste, Hanseatenweg, Berlin.

University of Essex

A panel discussion with Amelia Horgan (Author of Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism); moderated by Professor Linsey McGoey. Hosted by the Sociology Department and the Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation.

Invited to a featured roundtable discussion on ‘speculative fictions of financial society’ with Geraldine Juárez, Fabian Muniesa and Bahar Noorizadeh

Invited talk on the politics of attention in the Locarno Film Festival 2022 - discussion with thinkers including Hito Steyerl, Kevin B. Lee and Laurie Anderson.

[In-person] A special ‘author meets critics’ book event on Speculative Communities, hosted by the Finance and Society Research Network, part of the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), at the University of Amsterdam.

With Linsey McGoey (Essex), Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra (UC San Diego) and Leon Wansleben (Max Planck Cologne)

Venue: University of Amsterdam - A Building - A2.11.

[In-person] Can we imagine communities that weaponise uncertainty and volatility to resist financialized capitalism? A conversation and celebration of the German launch of Speculative Communities. With Manuela Bojadzijev (Humboldt University), Bahar Noorizadeh (Artist and curator, founder of Weird Economies), and Quinn Slobodian (Author of Globalists, Wellesley College). Moderated by Boaz Levin (Curator, editor of Cabinet Magazine's Kiosk).

[In-person] Public lecture at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany. Hosted by the Institute’s director Professor Jens Beckert.

[in-person] Adrift yet not alone: the rise of Homo Speculans. Invited lecture in the Finance Fiction Colloquia. Organised by Mikkel Krause Frantzen (KU), with a response from Kristian Bondo Hansen (CBS).

[in-person] Speculative Communities Danish Book Launch at Copenhagen’s international bookshop. With Marijam Didžgalvytė, Rosie Collington and Mikkel Krause Frantzen.

Rutgers University, Center for Cultural Analysis

A book lecture on Speculative Communities as part of the Critical AI talk series at Rutgers University, NJ. With a response from Justin Joque (Author of Revolutionary Mathematics), moderated by Jamie Pietruska. Hosted by the Center for Cultural Analysis & the Center for Cognitive Science.

Uppsala University, Sweden

An invited book talk on Speculative Communities hosted by the Department of Social and Economic Geography.

The Strand Bookstore & the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies

A round-table discussion with: Arjun Appadurai (Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University); Melinda Cooper (Professor of Sociology, Australian National University, Author of Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism); and Jamieson Webster (Psychoanalyst and Commentator, Author of Conversion Disorder). Moderated by Julia Ott (Director of the Heilbroner Center).

Link to the video recording of the event: https://capitalismstudies.org/speculativecommunities/

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

An invited book talk on Speculative Communities hosted by the Department of Sociology. Part of the Michaelmas Term research seminar series — link.

University of Saint Andrews, Scotland

An invited talk at the Accounting, Governance and Organisations thematic research group of the School of Management — link.

UCL Institute of Advanced Studies

Panel discussion with Chiara Bottici (New School for Social Research) and Christian Fuchs (University of Westminster) on how new media technologies shape the political economy — link.

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

An invited talk addressing the recent explosion of political, economic and organisational discourses of chaos – a phenomenon that can be described in sociological terms as a ‘radicalisation of uncertainty’; plus a participatory workshop on the concepts of ‘chaos’ and ‘imagination’. Organised by Cistas and the AlterEcos project, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy — link.

The New School for Social Research, NY, USA

Invited talk at The Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, with Professors Julia Ott (The New School, Historical Studies), Chiara Bottici (The New School, Philosophy), exploring the historical and social dimensions of finance capitalism and speculation in the past and present, as well as the possibilities for the future — link.

Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Russia

Invited panel with Benjamin Bratton.