Introduction: Ahead of time

Oskar Christensson is a PhD student at the Department of Business and IT at Borås University and the Department of Business Administration at Lund University School of Economics and Management. His research interests evolve around consumer culture, sustainable transportation, temporality.

Martin Corbett is Reader in Technology and Organisational Psychology at the University of Leicester School of Management. His central research interests evolve around the relationship between technology and organisational behaviour, with particular focus on subjectivity, power, perception, and the human sensorium. Associate interests include alternative (non-visual) ways of knowing, management history, and alternative forms of organising.

Alexander Paulsson holds master degrees in History, Political Science and Business Administration and recently completed a PhD at Lund University School of Economics and Management. His research interests include bureaucracy, informal economy, the role of commodities in political theory, and the cultural history of market society.

Stefan Tramer is a PhD student at the Department of Business Administration at Lund University School of Economics and Management. His research interests concern conceptual history, philosophy of history, potentiality, temporality and unemployment.