BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f5d55009fb8e44e8648f709b02e84037 DTSTAMP:20260430T225731Z SUMMARY:New Capitalism[s]& Violence DESCRIPTION:Contact: sofia.ulver@fek.lu.se\n\nContemporary scholarship incr easingly speaks of capitalism(s) rather than a singular capitalism. Platfo rm economies\, gig work\, extractive markets\, aestheticized consumer cult ures\, and criminalized market formations coexist and overlap\, generating distinct configurations of power\, precarity\, and harm.This seminar brin gs together scholars working with different conceptualizations of capitali sm alongside participants engaged with questions of violence and harm beyo nd academia\, to examine how contemporary market logics produce mutations of violence – economic\, symbolic\, cultural\, and criminal. Rather than treating violence as a stable or singular phenomenon\, the seminar explor es how harm and crime are shaped\, normalized\, and redistributed across c onsumer societies structured by market relations.This is a seminar open to everyone.SIGN UPOrganisersSofia Ulver\, Associate Professor in Consumer a nd Marketing Studies\, Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM)Erik Hannerz\, Associate Professor in Cultural Criminology\, Depart ment of Sociology\, Lund UniversityDavid Sausdal\, Associate Professor in Cultural Criminology\, Department of Sociology\, Lund UniversityProgramme( Speaker presentations linked below)09.00 (sharp) – 09.15 Welcome (Sofia Ulver\, Erik Hannerz and David Sausdal)09.15 – 12.30 Speakers on capital ism(s)Keynote Speakers:Financilized CapitalismProfessor Ester Barinaga\, L und University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM)Affective Capital ismProfessor Joel Hietanen\, University of Helsinki\, FinlandAbandonement CapitalismProfessor James Fitchett\, University of Leicester in the UKBeyo nd Capitalocentrism: Reading for difference in criminal economiesAssociate Professor Christina Jerne\, Aarhus UniversityModerator: Sofia Ulver12.30 – 13.30 (sharp) Lunch13.30 (sharp) – 13.45 Welcome back (Sofia Ulver a nd Mia-Marie Hammarlin)13.45 – 16:00: Flash talks and Panel\, deeper int o how capitalism(s) connect to specific violence.Flash talks and Panel Deb ate:Gig Economy and GangstersAssociate Professor David Sausdal\, Cultural Criminology\, Lund University\, Cultural Crimininology\, Faculty of Social SciencesRacial CapitalismAssociate Professor Peter SvenssonMarketing Stud ies\, Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM)Algorithmi c Capitalism and the Far-RightPhD\, Researcher Pasko Kisić-Merino\, Resea rcher at PLEDGE Horizon Project\, Department of Political Science at Lund UniversityBeyond CapitaliocentrismAssociate Professor Christina Jerne\, Aa rhus UniversityFinancialized CapitalismProfessor Ester Barinaga\, Lund Uni versity School of Economics and Management (LUSEM)Moderator: Mia-Marie Ham marlinAdditional participants\, including representatives from outside aca demia\, will be confirmed.Moderator: Associate Professor\, Mia-Marie Hamma rlin\, Department of Communication\, Lund UniversitySpeaker presentationsP rofessor Ester BarinagaFinanzialized CapitalismEster Barinaga is Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Lund University School of Economics and Man agement. Her research interrogates the violence embedded in contemporary c apitalism\, not just as a system of economic exchange\, but as a regime th at enforces exclusion\, extraction\, and erasure. Her work exposes how dom inant forms of capitalism\, particularly in their financialized and neolib eral iterations\, perpetuate structural violence: territorial stigmatizati on\, economic dispossession\, and the colonization of collective imaginati on. Through her scholarship\, Barinaga goes beyond critiquing these dynami cs\, to also look at the methods and practices social and grassroots entre preneurs use to advance social change. In this doing\, she focuses on how such initiatives actively seek to reclaim and remake capitalism from the g round up\, centering marginalized communities as architects of alternative economic futures.Her presentation will focus on how financialised capital ism’s money creation process – rooted in bank-issued debt and interest – is not just an economic mechanism\, but a form of structural violence . By unpacking the accounting alchemy that allows private banks to conjure money out of loans\, she will reveal how this system entrenches inequalit y\, fuels cyclical crises\, and forces perpetual growth\, all while extrac ting value from the many to benefit the few. Drawing on her work with gras sroots monetary innovations and community currencies\, she will contrast t his extractive logic with emergent\, commons-based alternatives that recla im money as a tool for collective agency and sustainability. The presentat ion ultimately asks: Can we dismantle the violence of debt-driven capitali sm – and what would it take to remake money for a just future?Professor James FitchettAdandonement CapitalismJames Fitchett is Professor of Market ing and Consumption\, and Deputy Head of the School of Business and the Un iversity of Leicester in the UK\, and an Associate Editor for Marketing Th eory. His research sits at the intersection of critical theory\, cultural theory\, and political economy\, with a particular focus on diagnosing con temporary forms of market\, marketing\, and consumer culture erasure. His work interrogates how capitalism produces subjectivity\, desire\, and harm through symbolic power and symbolic violence. \;James' presentation " Abandonment Capitalism: Living Currency and the Limits of Critique – De Sade\, Nietzsche\, and Innovations of Violence" develops a conceptual inte rvention into consumer and marketing theory through a close engagement wit h Pierre Klossowski’s Living Currency. While critical consumer research has been shaped by Marxist political economy and Freudian or Lacanian psyc hoanalysis\, his presentation argues that these frameworks increasingly st ruggle to account for contemporary forms of capitalist violence that opera te through affect\, excess\, and the commodification of subjectivity itsel f. \;Professor Joel HietanenAffective CapitalismJoel Hietanen is Profe ssor at Centre for Consumer Research\, University of Helsinki.His interest s include affectivity in technocapitalism and the dark side of desire in c onsumption from psychoanalutical and French poststructuralist perspectives . His recent work has focused on the notion of the perverted consumer\, th e dividual\, and automated subjectivity. Methodologically he has a continu ed interest in videography and netnography. \;His talk will be on how consumer culture inherently needs perverted consumer subjectivities to fun ction. While critical frameworks have began to question the coherence and agency of the consumer\, the perverted impulse in consumption has been lar gely overlooked. In contrast to typical interpretations of consumption's n eurotic or psychotic tendencies\, It is the largely hidden logic of a perv erted impulse that guarantees consumer culture its extreme libidinal allur e and longevity\, even as its inherently empty and alienating qualities ar e increasingly recognised.Associate Professor Christina JerneBeyond Capita locentrismChristina Jerne is a scholar\, translator and experiential curat or. Her most recent book is Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Ital ian Anti-Mafia Activism\, published by University of Minnesota Press in 20 25. Her studies of mafias in Italy and gangs in Denmark\, show how forms o f social violence frequently mimic and intensify existing social norms – whether expressed in capitalist\, patronal\, welfare-based\, diasporic\, or feudal economies – by opposing them\, subjugating them\, or fully ali gning with them. By examining the different logics of harm embedded in the se economies\, she identifies potential sites for collective action.Her sp eak will be about: What if we treated capitalism like any other form of ec onomic logic\; as one of many\, rather than “the One”? Drawing on ethn ographic research on mafia economies in Italy and gang economies in Denmar k\, this talk explores the diversity of economic logics that these forms o f collective violence build on in a historical perspective. The method of “reading for economic difference” ultimately allows for the tracing of agency as well as dominance.  \; \;Opposition by Imitation: The E conomics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism – upress.umn.eduAbout the flash speakers and panel membersAssociate Professor David SausdalGig Economy and GangstersDavid Sausdal\, Associate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Lund University. As a criminological ethnographer David's research interes ts revolve around contemporary issues of crime and control. He is currentl y PI on two research projects focusing respectively on private investigato rs and gang criminality in the Nordic countries.“I don’t really care a bout gangs” is something David might be tempted to say\, even though he is leading the largest research project ever conducted on gangs in the Nor dics. What he means by this is\, of course\, not that gangs do not interes t him at all. Rather\, it is meant to point to how gangs primarily interes t him as a societal mirror – as a way of understanding how the so-called criminal “underworld” reflects wider trends in society\, including sh ared cultural\, technological\, and economic configurations. David would l ike to talk about “gigs\, games\, and gangsters”\; that is\, how prese nt-day gang life and violence can be understood\, in cultural criminologic al terms\, as reflections of a broader gig-based and gamified economy.Asso ciate Professor Peter SvenssonRacial CapitalismPeter Svensson\, Associate Professor\, Department of Business School\, LUSEM\, reads\, writes and tea ches at the intersection of organization studies. organizational communica tion and marketing. His research is mostly informed by different versions of discourse analysis and critical theory. At the moment he (together with Johan Jönsson) is doing research on the ideology of excellence and the c ulture of good-enoughness in contemporary work life. He is also doing rese arch on the power of formalization and documentation of organizational lif e.Drawing mainly upon Pushkala Prasad’s forthcoming book Capitalism’s Dark Complexion: Race\, Markets and the Politics of Value (Bristol Univers ity press\, 2026)\, Peter will try to connect the discussion of capitalism and violence to the historical role of management\, oppression and exploi tation of race. In relation to this debate\, he will also make a prelimina ry remark on the incapacity of capita-isms \;to contribute to the eman cipation from oppression and structural imprisonment.Researcher Pasko Kisi ć-MerinoAlgorithmic capitalismPasko Kisić-Merino \;is a Researcher f or the PLEDGE Horizon Project (Politics of Grievance and Democratic Govern ance) at the Department of Political Science at Lund University\, Sweden. As part of his \;research\, he aims \;to understand how the far-ri ght and neoliberal capitalism operate in a libidinal continuum \;both reproducing a spectacle of politics and foreclosing possibilities for subs tantial social transformation and emancipation through violent discourses and technologies.He will discuss how the normalisation of the far-right - seen through empirical illustrations in hybrid media in Sweden and the US - reveals the structure of capital’s libidinal economy of power. Explore d in the “Helg Seger!” incident during the Swedish national elections in 2022 and in the US Capitol Hill storming in 2021\, this libidinal econo my of power is co-constituted by the perverse intertwining of i) fantasies  \;of belonging\, (in)security\, and dystopia\; ii) the material condi tions of algorithmic media technologies\; and iii) our unconscious commitm ents to perpetrate “necessary”\, redemptive violence against threateni ng\, essentialised others.This is a joint event with the Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund University.\n\nMore information about the event: https:/ /www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/new-capitalisms-violence DTSTART;TZID=GMT:20260422T070000 DTEND;TZID=GMT:20260422T140000 LOCATION:Campus Paradiset (exact hall will be communicated to everyone who have registered) END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR