Mittwoch, 19.11.2025
41. Böhm Bawerk Lecture 2025: "All that is Solid Melts into Air: Digitization and the Move Toward Nothingness"
17:00 - 18:30 Uhr
Aula, Campus Sowi, Universitätsstraße 15, 6020 Innsbruck
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Vortragende/r
Russell W. Belk
Professor and the Kraft Foods Canada Chair in Marketing at Schulich School of Business, York University
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Abstract: Technology is different than when Marx was penning Das Kapital in the reading room of the British Museum. But “All that is solid…” is no longer just a metaphor for the effects of industrial capitalism. Our books, films, and file folders have literally disappeared. Related processes like digitalization, miniaturization, and ephemeralization, together with phenomena like the sharing economy mean that we can travel and live more lightly today. Drawing on conceptual art I ask whether the old wisdom that you are what you own, where you live, and what consume still has relevance. Should we be nostalgic for days when the world seemed more solid? Where is this headed, and does it matter? Where does it end? We will consider such issues in a talk that is ultimately about nothing.
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Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultäten in Kooperation mit dem FSP EP