Fabian Muniesa
Fabian 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 received high school education at the Lycée Français de Madrid, in Spain. He graduated from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1996, and obtained a master's degree in that same institution in 1998. Notable mentors and influences in this institution included,, and. 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. After a year working as a post-doctoral researcher at the London School of Economics, he returned to Paris with an international grant from the city's municipal government. He obtained a permanent position at the École des Mines de Paris in 2005, becoming there a collaborator of Michel Callon and Bruno Latour. In 2010, he obtained an ERC Starting Grant. In 2011, he obtained a research habilitation from the Université Paris Dauphine.Work
Fabian Muniesa's academic work is focused on the anthropological critique of the culture of capitalism and on the study of the troubles of economic meaning. 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, and the examination of the paranoid potentials of contemporary notions of financial value.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.