Cossu, A. (2022). Autonomous art institutions: artists disrupting the creative city. In press for Rowman and Littlefield International. ISBN: 978-1-78661-602-9 (April 2022).
This book provides a unique perspective on the political engagement of artists in order to investigate the reconfiguration of contemporary art practices as they dissolve in social and economic processes. The book offers insight into the making of a radical art institution across seven years of activity, showing how social, cultural, and economic elements are appropriated and repurposed by artists in the process.
Cossu, A. (2022). ‘The unexpected consequences of a pandemic: Crypto-finance as cultural commons’. Under review for European Journal of Cultural Studies. Available as pre-print on SSRN.
In this article I theorise on the dynamics of cultural production that users and investors enact in the digital space of Crypto-Finance. Here I advance an understanding that these dynamics can be understood as a cultural common that should be contextualised in processes of class formation and in response to crisis.
Cossu, A. (2022). The digital traces of crypto-finance. In E. Armano, M. Briziarelli, & E. Risi, (Eds.), Data traces, digital platforms, and algorithmic self. U Westminster Press. ISBN: 978-1-914386-08-4. SSRN pre-print
This chapter theorises on the interlinkage between data and crypto-finance, in the context of datafication by stressing the contradictions of a time when crypto-investors have an unprecedented potential to create value but, at the same time, are subject to exploitative processes of data collection.
Cossu, A. (2018). Brands and productive publics in the event economy: the case of Milano Design Week. Sociologia del lavoro (Sociology of Work), (152). ISSN 0392-5048. ISSNe 1972-554X. Available at Academia.edu
This article focuses on the role of publics as value producers by using digital methods analysis (Rogers, 2013) on a dataset of 10,000 Instagram photos along with a critical visual analysis (Rose, 2016). Focusing on a large event, it identifies the communication patterns between the publics and the event’s main communication outlets, allowing assess if and to what extent publics contribute to brands’ value creation processes.
Cossu, A. (2018). Beyond social media determinism? How artists reshape the organization of social movements. Social Media + Society. doi: 10.1177/2056305117750717.
This article explores the organisation of social movements created by artists, focussing on how digital media alter their fundamental organisational logic. It presents key insights from the fieldwork and offers a methodological conclusion arguing that a synergy between digital methods and qualitative research is needed to assess these dynamics.
Gandini, A., & Cossu, A. (2021). The third wave of coworking: ‘Neo-corporate’ model versus ‘resilient’ practice. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 24(2), 430–447. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549419886060 Available at Researchgate.net
In this article the evolution of collaborative work is explored, namely coworking, by analysing the discourses and practices of the coworking movement in ways that are alternative to the neo-corporate paradigm, in both urban and non-urban contexts.
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