This essay was published in Scripted Culture: Digitisation and Cultural Public Spheres, edited by Ruedi Widmer and Ines Kleesattel (Diaphanes, 2018).
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Simon Grand, Christoph Weckerle, “Economification and Culturalization – Dynamics and Governance Models” (2018)
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