Event – Christian Borch: “High-Frequency Trading, Algorithmic Finance, and Avalanching Markets”

Christian Borch is a visiting scholar at NSSR and Professor of Political Sociology at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is the PI of a large so-called Sapere Aude research project on “Crowd Dynamics in Financial Markets”, funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research. He has published extensively on sociological crowd theory, culminating with his book The Politics of Crowds: An Alternative History of Sociology(Cambridge University Press, 2012), which was awarded the 2014 ASA Theory Book Prize. His other books from the past years include Urban Commons: Rethinking the City (ed. with Martin Kornberger, Routledge, 2015); Foucault, Crime and Power: Problematisations of Crime in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2015); Architectural Atmospheres: On the Experience and Politics of Architecture (ed. volume, Birkhäuser, 2014); Niklas Luhmann (Key Sociologists) (Routledge, 2011); and Soziologie der Nachahmung und des Begehrens: Materialien zu Gabriel Tarde (ed. with Urs Stäheli, Suhrkamp, 2009).