New modalities are emerging around the world at the intersections of money and housing ripe for opening up what is possible in our current condition and for what might become. And while this took a secondary position over a more general concern for urban governance in my Ph.D., it will play a more central role in my future research program on the alternative monetary and social forms that are emerging around renewed interest in social and affordable housing. In part, the interest in crowdfunding arouse out of a desire to understanding how this monetary form was being put to work in urban property markets. Housing and a theoretical interest in the social forms that arise to support the production of ‘property’ as a financial asset has been at the core of my interest throughout my career. Housing, real estate, and community development futures (2018) Hayak in the cloud: conservative cognition and the evolution of the smart city. Burns (Eds.) Digital (In)Justice in the Smart City. (2021) The evolution of splintering urbanism in planetary informational ecosystems. (2021) Crowd Cash and the City: the reemergence of the crowd as a financial ‘actor’ and the reimagining of urban development futures.ĭaniels, J., Hilt, M., and E. I would contend that the managing of crowds is a defining feature of our contemporary political economy.
Just as we have placed the economic theories that provide the scientific legitimation of market coordination under a microscope, we need to place the ‘discovery’ of social network theories-be it of crowds or otherwise-as the scientific legitimation of an emergent platform capitalism under the same microscope. My work is a call to better understand the role of the ‘collective’ as it is configured in particular geohistorical conjunctures. Yet, oddly, in our efforts to understand the power and legacy of the ‘rational individual’ we have largely ignored collective being, and in so doing, allowed regressive political economies to colonize ‘the collective’ as a site of progressive claim making in our contemporary economies. Concerns over urban democracy and economy have placed the figure of ‘the crowd’ centrally.
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