Children’s culture contains elemental traces of financialization

Evidence

True enough, but it is my conjecture that we may discover the elemental traces of financialization even in children’s culture, and in those traces find, in a uniquely telling form, some of the most important and elemental aspects of the processes of financialization and its complex and unique reliance on and transformation of agency. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 323

Categorization

• SEED: Could spark an essay on the financialization of childhood — how kids’ games and toys rehearse adult financial subjectivity.
• XREF: Connects to deWaard’s thesis that finance colonizes culture — extended here to the one demographic mainstream analyses usually exclude. — connects to: Financial metaphors and modes have crept into everyday North American culture — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 91; Financialization colonizes culture by fusing economic price with social value — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 561; Children’s play with trading cards trains dispositions suited to financialized society. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 567 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Children’s play with trading cards trains dispositions suited to financialized society. #exemplifies (0.95) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 567
• Children’s play toys train kids for financialized neoliberal life #expands (0.88) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 393
• Financialization colonizes culture by fusing economic price with social value #corroborates (0.78) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 561
• Corporate commodities become playgrounds where children negotiate value and meaning #expands (0.75) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 375
• Culture is not superstructural but is where financialized capitalism subjugates social values #expands (0.72) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 563
• Cultural industries shifted from commodity language to financial-instrument language #expands (0.72) — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 96