I’m honoured to be giving the keynote for this symposium on ‘Finance and Ruination’ at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures in Vienna. The programme looks great and the event is open to the public, so come join us! Big thanks to Naoki Matsuyama and Mikkel Rørbo for organising. buff.ly/b0OgVpz
I'll be in Vienna this week to speak about my book, Currency of Nihilism. Come along if you're around! buff.ly/b0OgVpz
It was a great pleasure to speak about my book Currency of Nihilism with @garethwatkins.bsky.social and @pyramidmaster.bsky.social on their podcast, Death Sentence. We touched on everything from French theory and punk rock to prediction markets. Have a listen below!
Looking forward to this! Thanks to @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social for the invitation to present my book Currency of Nihilism to the BISA working group on Critical Alternatives for World Politics. Come join us for the seminar. Details below.
Happy Easter from Finance and Society team!
Here is our special easter egg for all of you: a fresh Call for Papers for this year's Finance and Society conference happening again at CBS Copenhagen!
Deadline: May 1st
Hoping to see many of you there!
Book cover of Currency of Nihilism by Amin Samman
For readers interested in philosophy and the history of capitalism, Currency of Nihilism by Amin Samman offers an unsettling perspective on the nihilistic structures of feeling that underwrite the contemporary financial system.
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My new book Currency of Nihilism is officially out today!
In it, I develop a history and theory of financial nihilism that speaks directly to the ongoing merger of digital technology with finance.
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It was a great pleasure to present "Currency of Nihilism" at the University of Warwick. The conversation was very spirited and I am looking forward to speaking with more people about the book in the coming months. If you would like the Financial Nihilism Roadshow to visit your town, do get in touch!
I enjoyed speaking to Ryan Gladwin at Decrypt about financial nihilism, crypto derivatives, and extreme leverage on Hyperliquid (their project of the year for 2025). decrypt.co/352544/proje...
🚨CURRENCY OF NIHILISM will be out in March 2026🚨https://www.sup.org/books/politics/currency-nihilism
🚨CURRENCY OF NIHILISM will be out in March 2026🚨https://www.sup.org/books/politics/currency-nihilism
📣New scholarship ! Amin Samman builds on Yuran’s "The Sexual Economy of Capitalism" to unpack modern finance and its “obscenity”.
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Some exciting reviews have come in for my forthcoming book, Currency of Nihilism. Thank you to Joseph Vogl, Arthur Kroker, Noam Yuran, and William Davies @will-davies.bsky.social for their thoughtful engagement with the manuscript!
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Congrats to Sandy on this banging article. More to come from him soon, next time with more ketamine!
Great work on this piece Johannes!
*new article*
We bring the Frankfurt School into the Spotify age — and it was a fun one to write! 😎
'From Adorno to 50 Cent: Financialized platform capitalism, Spotify, and the culture industry in the twenty-first century' in @finandsoc.bsky.social
Check it out here:
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This will produce an extraordinary amount of waste, duplication and lack of transparency. To understand why it is crucial to understand what VC dynamics are and what their aims are. See my @finandsoc.bsky.social article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
"There is no longer any depth, no longer any subtext either. The entire history of economic life is pushed up to the surface, leaving nothing behind for it to hide. It is this profound superficiality that now rules."
What is the relation between obscenity and the financial? I take up this question in my new piece, inspired by Noam Yuran's recently published book on The Sexual Economy of Capitalism. Both should make for a titillating read!
Once again a cery interesting, thought provoking and inspiring Finance and Society conference @finandsoc.bsky.social - looking forward to next year (whereever it's going to be)!
Thanks to numerous colleagues for intense discussions and critical questions!
Highlight - finally seeing @provokedeconomy.bsky.social talk about paranoid finance at this years brilliant @finandsoc.bsky.social conference 🥳
Great to have you join us Paul!
This was indeed a very full and productive 2 days @finandsoc.bsky.social
Very pleased to announce the full programme for this year's Finance and Society conference, which will take place on 11-12 September at Copenhagen Business School. Registration now open to the public. Come join us!
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don't worry i won't hold it against you
hi derek, I've already placed it with an indexer but otherwise I definitely would've taken you up on the offer!
It's happening! My book on financial nihilism is set to be published in March next year with Stanford UP. It has been many years in the making and I look forward to seeing it in print soon. www.sup.org/books/politi...
It's official: "Financial nihilism runs rampant". Delighted to be interviewed for a special feature on meme coins in the July edition of the Hong Kong Economic Journal's monthly magazine.