Fabian Muniesa

 ( 1972 Births ) 

Fabian Muniesa (alternative spelling: Fabián Muniesa) is an Intellectual, Social science, and Poetry of French and Spanish citizenship. He is a Professor at the École des Mines de Paris, and a member of the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation in Paris, France.

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Life Fabian Muniesa (born 16 October 1972 in Madrid, Spain) received high school education at the Lycée Français de Madrid, in Spain. He graduated (sociology) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología) in 1996, and obtained a master's degree in that same institution in 1998. Notable mentors and influences in this institution included , , and . He then joined the Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications in France, enrolling simultaneously in the doctoral programme of Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, at the École des Mines de Paris, and completing a doctoral dissertation in 2003 (on the automation of the Paris Bourse). After a year working as a post-doctoral researcher at the London School of Economics (Department of Information Systems), he returned to Paris with an international grant from the city's municipal government. He obtained a permanent position at the École des Mines de Paris in 2005, becoming there a collaborator of Michel Callon and Bruno Latour.

(2025). 9780262122795, The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262122795

(2025). 9780691130163, Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691130163

In 2010, he obtained an ERC Starting Grant. In 2011, he obtained a Habilitation from the Université Paris Dauphine.

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Work

Fabian Muniesa's academic work is focused on the anthropological critique of the culture of capitalism and on the study of the troubles of economic meaning.

Jane I. Guyer (2025). 9780226326733, University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226326733

An early contributor to the social studies of finance, his work has been featured in academic outlets such as the Journal of Cultural Economy, Distinktion, and Economy and Society. Major contributions include the development of an approach to economic performativity inspired by the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Bruno Latour (his 2014 book The Provoked Economy), and the examination of the Paranoia potentials of contemporary notions of financial value (his 2024 book Paranoid Finance).

Fabian Muniesa (2025). 9780415857130, Routledge. ISBN 9780415857130

Fabian Muniesa (2025). 9781509561162, Polity. ISBN 9781509561162

Literary work by Fabian Muniesa includes a collection of Poetry in Spanish language, published in 2023, titled Barrena.

(2025). 9788419372963, Ril Editores. ISBN 9788419372963

His approach to literature is marked by the influence of Roberto Bolaño.

(2025). 9783658296506, Springer VS. ISBN 9783658296506

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Notable publications

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Academic work

• Fabian Muniesa (2025). 9780415857130, Routledge. ISBN 9780415857130
• Fabian Muniesa (2025). 9781509561162, Polity. ISBN 9781509561162

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Poetry

• (2025). 9788419372963, Ril Editores. ISBN 9788419372963

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External links

• Fabian Muniesa, personal webpage and CV, at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation
• Book Symposium (2016), from the Journal of Cultural Economy
• Interview with Fabian Muniesa (2020), Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast
• "La société cède les clés politiques de son avenir aux professionnels de la finance", in Le Monde (28 October 2021)
• "¿A dónde va la antropología del valor financiero?", Cátedra Norbert Lechner (2016), Universidad Diego Portales

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