{"product_id":"assetization-kean-birch-9780262539173","title":"Assetization: Turning Things Into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow the asset--anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream--has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, scholars from a range of disciplines argue that the asset--meaning anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream--has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism. An asset can be an object or an experience, a sum of money or a life form, a patent or a bodily function. A process of assetization prevails, imposing investment and return as the key rationale, and overtaking commodification and its speculative logic. Although assets can be bought and sold, the point is to get a durable economic rent from them rather than make a killing on the market. \u003ci\u003eAssetization\u003c\/i\u003e examines how assets are constructed and how a variety of things can be turned into assets, analyzing the interests, activities, skills, organizations, and relations entangled in this process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contributors consider the assetization of knowledge, including patents, personal data, and biomedical innovation; of infrastructure, including railways and energy; of nature, including mineral deposits, agricultural seeds, and \"natural capital\"; and of publics, including such public goods as higher education and \"monetizable social ills.\" Taken together, the chapters show the usefulness of assetization as an analytical tool and as an element in the critique of capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Beauvisage, Kean Birch, Veit Braun, Natalia Buier, B atrice Cointe, Paul Robert Gilbert, Hyo Yoon Kang, Les Levidow, Kevin Mellet, Sveta Milyaeva, Fabian Muniesa, Alain Nada , Daniel Neyland, Victor Roy, James W. Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kean Birch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262539179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262539173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.80w x 0.90d","brand":"Kean Birch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44138715611391,"sku":"9780262539173","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7a3823e9-1dda-42a8-93e0-c59a3a9ec557.jpg?v=1687901113","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/assetization-kean-birch-9780262539173","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}