Episode 311: Actuarial Nightmares

We talk with our ol’ friend Jathan Sadowski about regimes of actuarial governance, AKA The Insurance Industry; how highly financialized insurance products have come to have such power over our lives and what new capacities technologies and networked devices are unlocking in the Insurance Industry’s quest to capture more and more value.

Total life insurance: Logics of anticipatory control and actuarial governance in insurance technology by Jathan Sadowski