Moments of valuation

Oxford University Press

2015

xiv, 338 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index

9780198702504

1. Pragmatist Perspectives on Valuation: An Introduction / Michael Hutter and David Stark -- Part 1: Varieties of Aesthetic Valuation -- 2. Moments in the Valuation of Sound: The Early History of Synthesizers / Trevor Pinch -- 3. Paying Attention: What is Tasting Wine About? / Antoine Hennion -- 4. Dissonant Translations: Artistic Sources of Innovation in Creative Industries / Michael Hutter -- 5. Evaluating Valuation: Connoisseurship, Technology, and Art Attribution in an American Court of Law / John Brewer -- 6. An Evaluative Biography of Cynical Realism and Political Pop / Svetlana Kharchenkova and Olav Velthuis -- Part 2: Devices Valorizing Uncertain Aesthetic Experiences -- 7. Playing Nice, Being Mean, and the Space In Between: Book Critics and the Difficulties of Writing Bad Reviews / Phillipa K. Chong -- 8. Structures of the Tasted: Restaurant Reviews in Berlin Between 1995 and 2012 / Sophie Mutzel -- Making Things Precious: A Pragmatist Inquiry into the Valuation of Luxury Perfumes / Anne-Sophie Trebuchet-Breitwiller -- Part 3: Valuation in Fields of Practice -- 10. When Principles of Evaluation Clash: Assessing the Value of a Demonstratoin in Artifical Intelligence / Claude Rosental -- 11. Accounting and the Plasticity of Valuation / Andrea Mennicken and Michael Power -- 12. Clean and Profitable: Entangling Valuations in Environmental Entrepreneurship / Lilliana Doganova and Peter Karnoe -- 13. Reframing Expertise: The Rise of Behavioral Insights and Interventions in Public Policy / Holger Strassheim, Arlena Jung, and Rebecca-Lea Korinek -- Part 4: Valuation Within Organizations -- 14. Epistemic Dissonance: Reconfiguring Valuation in Architectural Practice / Ignacio Farias -- 15. Sources of Newness in Organizations: Sand, Oil, Energy, and Artists / Ariane Berthoin Antal -- 16. Performing Worth: Shareholder Value and Management Consultancy in Post-Mao China / Kimberly Chong

The outcome of innovation processes are determined by complex, historically grown valuation practices. In this book, a wide range of innovations are taken into consideration, from small inventions like entertainment novelties to large societal changes through new technologies. The chapters observe the particular local or distributed sites in which their episodes of innovation take place, and they identify the initial dissonance among those judging a newly proposed alternative. The emphasis of the inquiry, however, is on the practices of valuation that are at work when something succeeds in being "new". The authors represent a wide variety of sub-disciplines and national backgrounds in the social sciences. They share an interest in social valuation and a pragmatist approach. The differences between their empirical evidence reflect the wide variety of appearances that valuation takes in contemporary society. They are anthropologists, economic or cultural sociologists, organization researchers, historians or political scientists. A number of chapters deals with aesthetic valuation, as in the tasting of a new vintage, or in the socio-technical process that shaped successful synthesizer sounds. Other chapters discuss the judgment processes in organizations, like architect offices or consultancy firms, and processes of evaluation and valorization in larger fields of practice, like accounting or mathematics. The studies are both of interest in their various professional fields, and contribute to a more general understanding of the social and cultural conditions under which innovations fail and succeed. --Provided by publisher

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