To celebrate the launch of Aitor Jiménez's The Crimes of Digital Capitalism: Corporate Crime in an Age of Exploitation, this roundtable discussion will feature three different perspectives on the ways that digital technologies and infrastructures are reshaping modern capitalism. The discussants will ask how we can respond to this emergent system? What threats and opportunities does it present? What theoretical tools do we need to understand virtual and physical aspects of this transformation?
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The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is a world-leading centre for critical interdisciplinary research into the past, present, and future of capitalism. It brings together UCL faculty and students studying how markets, finance and economic institutions shape our everyday life, structure societies’ capacity to change, and are contested and remade across time and space.
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About the Speakers
Aitor Jiménez
Aitor Jiménez is Associate Professor in the Department of Law at the University of the Basque Country and the International Institute for the Sociology of Law. His monograph, The Crimes of Digital Capitalism: Corporate Crime in an Age of Exploitation, is out now with NYU Press and proposes the first comprehensive theory of corporate crime for the digital age.
Ana Valdivia
Ana Valdivia is a Departmental Research Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, Government & Policy at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Capitalism Studies. In her current research, Ana is examining the political and environmental impact of AI by understanding its supply chains from mineral extractivism, data centres and electronic waste dumps.
George Briley
George Briley is a lecturer in the School of Business and Law at the University of Brighton and an editor at Notes from Below. His most recent research examines the role of digital platforms in the hospitality sector, and the implications for workers and worker-led organising.
