Technoscience Rent: Toward a Theory of Rentiership for Technoscientific Capitalism

K Birch - Science, technology, & human values, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Contemporary, technoscientific capitalism is characterized by the (re) configuration of a
range of “things”(eg, infrastructure, data, knowledge, bodies) as assets or capitalized …

Big tech

K Birch, K Bronson - Science as Culture, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Big Tech is in the public and political spotlight. Usually defined as Apple, Amazon, Microsoft,
Google/Alphabet, and Facebook/Meta, Big Tech is becoming the watchword for corporate …

The problem of innovation in technoscientific capitalism: data rentiership and the policy implications of turning personal digital data into a private asset

K Birch, M Chiappetta, A Artyushina - Policy studies, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A spate of recent scandals concerning personal digital data illustrates the extent
to which innovation and finance are thoroughly entangled with one another. The innovation …

Why is ecological sustainability so difficult to achieve? An in‐context discussion of conceptual barriers

T Wolters - Sustainable Development, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite all kinds of environmental goals and programmes, there has been a severe
overshooting of the planet's ecological boundaries. The paper investigates various …

[LIBRO][B] Remaking housing policy: An international study

D Clapham - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Breaking the country-specific boundaries of traditional housing policy books, Remaking
Housing Policy is the first introductory housing policy textbook designed to be used by …

Neoliberalism and education

M Hastings - Oxford research encyclopedia of education, 2019 - oxfordre.com
Neoliberalism is a political project carried out by the capitalist class to consolidate their
ability to generate profits by exercising influence in political processes, such as elections, in …

Digital citizenship and neoliberalization: governing digital citizens in Denmark

J Schou, M Hjelholt - Citizenship Studies, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Digital citizenship is becoming increasingly normalized within advanced democratic states.
As society and governmental institutions become reliant on digital technologies, citizens are …

Introduction: Critical approaches to rentiership

K Birch, C Ward - … and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The provocation of this special issue is that contemporary capitalism is different. It is
increasingly dominated by rentiership rather than entrepreneurship: that is, the extraction of …

Automated neoliberalism? The digital organisation of markets in technoscientific capitalism

K Birch - New Formations, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
The core contradiction in neoliberalism (studies) is that markets are organised and require
significant bureaucratic coordination and governance. In light of the increasingly …

[LIBRO][B] Neoliberal bio-economies?

K Birch, K Birch - 2019 - Springer
Currently, solutions to environmental problems, like climate change, are primarily framed in
terms of market-based instruments or approaches, relying on private interests and incentives …