Contemporary political struggle is now fought on finance’s own terrain

Evidence

Perhaps most valuably, such critical work captures the shifting field of political struggle itself, comprising not mere “cogs in the current regime of capital accumulation” (Feher 2018, 209) but active debtors, creditors, investors, and investees whose collective battles are waged on finance’s own turf. What is more, such framing is sensitive to more inclusive visibilities, through an acknowledgment of traditionally invisible subjects’ mutual contingencies—­chief among which is their mutual indebtedness. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 486

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames what ‘investee activism’ / ‘dividual politics’ names: the shift of political battle onto finance’s turf via mutual indebtedness.
• XREF: connects to: Finance can unwittingly generate political connections among marginalized people.; Finance capitalism’s power struggles are fundamentally contests over speculative imagination — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 148; Fighting financialization requires wielding speculation on shifting ground — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 43 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Fighting financialization requires wielding speculation on shifting ground #responds-to (0.82) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 43
• Progressive movements can counter-speculate against finance on its own terms #responds-to (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 41
• Finance capitalism’s power struggles are fundamentally contests over speculative imagination #qualifies (0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 148