Taylor Nelms nos cuenta de un muy interesante post y excelente invitación que comienza así:
“Debt seems to be all around us—in monthly credit card statements, newspaper headlines and debates about predatory lending, student loans, austerity and stimulus—and is again at the forefront of popular consciousness and the anthropological imagination. After the recent financial crisis, anthropologists have begun to question what we can contribute to this newly urgent consideration of debt and money. In this short commentary we introduce a potentially fruitful line of inquiry into debt as a set of material practices yielding its own artifacts, lasting and ephemeral. Our call for attention to the material cultures of debt and money is issued in conjunction with the announcement of a new online forum dedicated to documenting and reflecting upon transactions artifacts past, present and future. Read More

En mayo del presente año realizamos junto con Marcin Serafin una entrevista a Jens Beckert, director del “Max Planck Institut for the Study of Societies” de Colonia, Alemania. La entrevista será publicada en inglés, pero acá compartimos algunas de las preguntas que hemos traducido al español para el blog Estudios de la Economía.