Fabian Muniesa

Fabian Muniesa (alternative spelling: Fabián Muniesa) is an author, social scientist, and poet 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.

Life

Fabian Muniesa (born 16 October 1972 in Madrid, Spain) received high school education at the Lycée Français de Madrid, in Spain. 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). In 2010, he obtained an ERC Starting Grant. In 2011, he obtained a research habilitation from the Université Paris Dauphine. 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 paranoid potentials of contemporary notions of financial value (his 2024 book Paranoid Finance).

Literary work by Fabian Muniesa includes a collection of poems in Spanish, published in 2023, titled Barrena. His approach to literature is marked by the influence of Roberto Bolaño.

Notable publications

Academic work

Poetry