Markets and the Arts of Attachment

Franck Cochoy is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès and a member of CERTOP-CNRS, France. He works in the field of economic sociology, with a focus on the human and technical mediations that frame the relationship between supply and demand. He has conducted several projects and case studies on such topics as the role of marketing, packaging, self-service, trade press, and so on. He recently published The Limits of Performativity: Politics of the Modern Economy with Liz McFall and Martin Giraudeau (eds.) (Routledge, 2014), On the Origins of Self-Service (Routledge, 2015) and On Curiosity, the Art of Market Seduction (Mattering Press, 2016). Joe Deville is a Lecturer at Lancaster University, based jointly in the Departments of Organisation, Work & Technology and Sociology. A major focus of his work has been the encounter between defaulting consumer credit debtor and debt collector, which was the subject of his first book Lived Economies of Default, published by Routledge in 2015. Other areas of interest include disaster preparedness, comparative and digital methods, behavioural economics, and theories of money. He is an editor at Journal of Cultural Economy and a co-founder and editor of Mattering Press, an Open Access book publisher, and the online consumer studies research network Charisma. Liz McFall is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and research lead for Digital Participation at the Open University in the UK. She is currently researching how the convergences surrounding digital disruption and the current global wave of health care reforms are forging new roles for states, insurance markets and marketing. She is author of Devising Consumption: Cultural economies of insurance, credit and spending (Routledge, 2014), Advertising: A cultural economy (2004) and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cultural Econ

Introduction: Markets and the Arts of Attachment, (Liz McFall, Franck Cochoy, Joe Deville)










From Social Ties to Socio-Economic Attachments: A Matter of Selection and Collection, (Franck Cochoy)







Manufacturing the Consumer’s Truth: The Uses of Consumer Research in Advertising Inquiry, (Tomas Ariztia)







Marketing and the Domestication of Social Media, (Kevin Mellet)







Interfacing Attachments: The Multivalence of Brands, (Carolin Gerlitz)







You are a Star Customer, Please Hold the Line…’: CRM and the Socio-Technical Inscriptions of Market Attachment, (Alexandre Mallard)







The Market will Have you: The Arts of Market Attachment in a Digital Economy, (Liz McFall and Joe Deville)







‘My Story has no Strings Attached’: Credit Cards, Market Devices and a Stone Guest, (José Ossandón)







From Market Relations to Romantic Ties: The Tests of Internet Dating, (Emmanuel Kessous)







(Acquiring Associations: On the Unexpected Social Consequences of Possessive Relations, (Hans Kjellberg)






Afterword: The Devices of Attachment, (Michel Callon)