Merci Catherine (1957-2026) et Fred (1954-2007). Vous étiez la classe.
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Julien Migozzi
@jmigozzi.bsky.social
Economic geographer. Assistant Professor, Cambridge University. I research how digital capitalism transforms markets, cities, and inequalities. https://jmigozzi.github.io
Merci Catherine (1957-2026) et Fred (1954-2007). Vous étiez la classe.
Les Rita Mitsouko - C'est comme ça (Clip Officiel)
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4-year postdoc(s) at Copenhagen Business School on project The Business of Corruption: Why Business Elites Collude or Combat Political Corruption, led by @mkjustesen.bsky.social. Start: summer 2027, deadline 18 September. www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs...
Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done. Baloney. Economist @gabrielzucman.bsky.social debunks their lies. Watch.
How Would a Wealth Tax Work? (ft. Gabriel Zucman)
Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done.Baloney.Economist
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As much as they seem to reside in cloud infrastructures, the power of tech and its elites is rooted, and wants to stay rooted, in land and property.
“We are rebooting the community as a tech tribe,” Balaji Srinivasan said to start the meeting, “and our core competency will be turning around distressed real estate.” thepointmag.com/politics/no-...
1/n We've just put a new (long) paper online: osf.io/preprints/so... It's a new history of macroeconomics, and it's been one very, very important for me to write It summarizes what historians of macro have been up to in the 10 years, but more importantly...
Juli-E-n. Not Julian. Like Julie, with a N. Or Julian, with a E.
great job here - in the very dynamic political economy program at berkeley - a dream gig! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05425
Assistant Professor – Political Economy – 50% Political Economy and 50% in a Related Discipline
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Social media platforms and smartphones have enabled, for the first time, a significant portion of individuals across the world to behave saying "Look at my life. Or even watch it". That changed a lot of things.
My history of AI poster's updated! It now features notable prehistory, the 1930s, + about 40 additional nodes in the 40s-2020s (including a new McCarthy quote from 2005). you can download it from my website and if you find any typos I don't want to know www.daniellejwilliams.com/posters
Looking for new materials to teach Housing, Class and Power 1.0? WSJ has got your back. www.wsj.com/video/can-re...
Can Rent Control Fix the Housing Crisis?
Can rent control fix the housing crisis? No, but it will make things worse, says Free Expression's Emma Camp.
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Very pleased to announce the programme for this year's @finandsoc.bsky.social conference. We'll be talking everything from prediction markets and offshore finance to acid capitalism and the assetization of horses. Come join us in Copenhagen if you can! financeandsocietynetwork.org/finandsoc-co...
Really cool new commentary about the “scam” under digital capitalism @ctwittekind.bsky.social @desireefields.bsky.social @jmigozzi.bsky.social @jovannarosen.bsky.social @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2053...
A beautiful thing in academia is the chance to meet and learn from smart people across disciplines, and let conversations simmer, allowing ideas to emerge and take shape. This was a great piece to write with a great team. Thanks to @ctwittekind.bsky.social and Elizabeth Resor for leading the charge!
Hey, I have these postcards of my book's cover (by Vera Villanueva for Yale UP). I'd love to mail you one. Will you send me a screenshot of 1) your pre-order OR 2) your (free!!) request that your library purchase the book? And of course an address to mail it to.
I am hiring a qualitative postdoc to start this fall for the @datasociety.bsky.social project AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge. Fully remote but must be US-based. Interested in youth, scams, hustle/financial/consumer culture? More here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...
Post-Doctoral Fellow, AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge
Remote
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Are you working on accumulation dynamics in Africa? Want to shape a research agenda? Then apply here @africamultiple.bsky.social www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/1_1-About... @kaikodden.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @miasa-ug.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social @humauct.bsky.social
I finally got round to reading properly @alondra.bsky.social's outstanding essay on implications of AI for social science: www.amacad.org/sites/defaul... - highly recommended
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✨ We are hiring @crestumr.bsky.social ✨ Post-doc position, up to 3 years, in a Horizon project. Profile: at the intersection of NLP & Social Sciences. More information here: shorturl.at/TxDLN 🥰 RT appreciated 🥰
Post-doctoral Position: Computational Analysis of Judicial Decisions (CREST/CNRS-Ecole polytechnique) – CSS @ IP-Paris
Site web de l'axe sciences sociales computationnelles du CREST-CNRS. Cours et tutoriels pour l'analyse des données numériques en sciences sociales.
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Prêt pour un voyage dans le temps? Alors imaginez : on est en 2055 et on a réussi la décarbonation. À quoi ressemblent nos vies et celles de nos enfants? Réponse le 22 mai en librairie et avec en bonus les magnifiques illustrations de Marc Bati 😉
My new paper is out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social! It contributes to ongoing debates on the current conjuncture and conjunctural analysis by placing the destruction of Gaza at the center. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Theorising the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism
This paper deploys a Gramscian theorisation of the conjuncture to argue that the contemporary global political economy is becoming constituted through the destruction of Gaza. It contends that Gaza's...
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🧵My paper on "Uneven Datafication" just came out! It draws on literature on coloniality, uneven development and dependency. Uneven datafication operates through three interrelated dynamics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Looking for something to read this Friday? Check out our April highlights from across the Society's journals: Finch-Race, D. A., and P. Lewis: https://ow.ly/K3uo50YRBLM Preci, A.: https://ow.ly/BA7l50YRBLN Hein, J.: https://ow.ly/CIQa50YRBLL Migozzi, J., and D. Wójcik: https://ow.ly/lN6x50YRBLP
I first met Desiree in a bar in Leuven in 2016, at a finance & real estate conference, during my PhD. I did not even present, feeling "not ready" -NEVER do this. *Ten* years later, platforms have reshaped real estate/finance & I get to publish with her. Read it, we put a lot of work into this piece!
New paper with @jmigozzi.bsky.social! What kind of financial subjects emerge at the intersection of investment platforms and social media narratives of financial freedom? Come for our critique of fintech's 'democratization', stay for our innovative computational+qualitative methods!
OnlineFirst - "Platform freedom: Financial subjectivity at the nexus of investment and social media" by Desiree Fields and Julien Migozzi: #retailinvestors #financialsubjectivity #platformcapitalism #fintech #structuraltopicmodeling journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
South Africa’s digitized housing market entrenches apartheid’s racial inequalities under the guise of neutrality. This conversation examines how credit scores now gatekeep access to homeownership with “color-blind” algorithms. With @jmigozzi.bsky.social
Matrix Podcast: Julien Migozzi: "Algorithms of Distinction: Class, Credit Scores, and Property in South Africa"
Recorded on March 18, 2026, this podcast features a lecture by Julien Migozzi, an economic geographer and Assistant Professor in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge. Dr Migozzi’s…
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Le Cap, laboratoire de l’opposition à l’ANC ? Présentée par l'Alliance démocratique comme un contre-modèle aux villes gérées par l'ANC, Le Cap, sous sa façade de carte postale, voit néanmoins les inégalités progresser. 🎧 @franceculture.fr urls.fr/44KtXT
Le Cap, laboratoire de l’opposition à l’ANC ? : épisode du podcast La ville contre l’État
AUDIO • La ville contre l’État, épisode : Le Cap, laboratoire de l’opposition à l’ANC ?. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Cultures Monde, et découvrez nos podcasts en ligne.
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