About

Ulysses Pascal researches how digital technologies mediate economic and political life. His work sits at the intersection of economic geography, critical data studies, and science and technology studies, examining how information infrastructures shape global finance. His current research investigates the relationship between finance and Big Tech, including the politics of financial data production, the infrastructural power of market metadata standards, and the role of platform technologies in reshaping capital markets. He is also developing theoretical work on the spatial semiotics of information economies and the implications of generative AI for human language.

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, examining how NASDAQ's parent company transformed its underlying market infrastructure into a commodified trading platform powering 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).