Capitalism shapes selfhood, ecology, and institutions well beyond economics

Evidence

Capitalism forged a system of moralism, a structure of ideas, and a materialist worldview that inform and determine a particular concept of profit and financial operations. It dictated and continues to dictate a particular set of relationships between and among institutions and, to no lesser extent, between and among individuals, thus forming a particular meaning of the self. It reestablished, at least as early as the Industrial Revolution, a new way of viewing and dealing with ecology and nature, one that gave the concept of domination the new and added meaning of internal transformation, which is to say that capitalism is performativity in its full force. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 69

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Autonomy is threatened by capitalism’s mutual implication of life and technology — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 566; Financialized capitalism shapes human activity and escapes human control — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 340; Subordinating social values to economic value is capitalism’s fundamental logic — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 346 (+8 more)