Fabian Muniesa

Fabian Muniesa is a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), based at Oxford University's School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, April-May 2025. He is a Professor at the École des Mines de Paris (Mines Paris - PSL) and a member of the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation. He is the author of The Provoked Economy: Economic Reality and the Performative Turn (Routledge, 2014) and Paranoid Finance (Polity, 2024) and the co-editor, with Kean Birch, of Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism (The MIT Press, 2020). He develops in his work an anthropological critique of business culture and financial capitalism. His most recent research deals with visions of value in conspiracy theory and their connections with mainstream financial imagination today.