About

Ulysses Pascal researches how digital technologies mediate social, economic, and political life. His current research explores the globalization of financial information infrastructures and the rise of platform finance, focusing on how market logics are shaped by the politics embedded in information technologies, protocols, and industrial standards. He is currently completing a manuscript titled *Circuits of Finance: NASDAQ and the Making of the Global Market*, which traces the history of NASDAQ from its origins in the 1960s to the collapse of the first dot-com boom in the early 2000s. Drawing on methods from critical infrastructure studies and human geography, his work examines how NASDAQ’s parent company, NASDAQ, Inc., transformed its underlying market infrastructure into a commodified trading platform that powers stock exchanges around the world. His research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Library of Singapore, the Charles Babbage Institute, and the Hagley Archives. He holds a PhD in Information Studies from UCLA and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Finance and Big Tech at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).