How the asset--anything that can be controlled, traded, and
capitalized as a revenue stream--has become the primary basis of
technoscientific capitalism.In 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. Assetization
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. The
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. Contributors Thomas Beauvisage, Kean
Birch, Veit Braun, Natalia Buier, Beatrice Cointe, Paul Robert
Gilbert, Hyo Yoon Kang, Les Levidow, Kevin Mellet, Sveta Milyaeva,
Fabian Muniesa, Alain Nadai, Daniel Neyland, Victor Roy, James W.
Williams
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