Global market interaction produces intersubjectivity beyond face-to-face encounters

Evidence

The complex temporal structuration and reciprocity that we have described give weight to the argument of a level of global intersubjectivity that extends beyond the face-to-face situation. — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 98

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to Schutzian phenomenology and to Lee and Martin’s later work on financial microstructures, and to scholarship on how electronic markets create social order without co-presence. — connects to: Screen-based trading recreated rather than abolished trader sociality and mutual anticipation. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 427; Interbank currency traders form a global social system distinct from local exchange brokerages — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures: The Virtual…, 13; Geographically dispersed but mutually oriented actors form global microstructures that bind markets together. — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures: The Virtual…, 18 (+10 more)

Broader Connections