Debt operates as a capture of the debtor’s future time.

Evidence

What is debt? It is also a capture of time, of our future. So the confrontation with university students in the UK is a dramatic example of the kind of switch-around we have seen — a struggle over the use of time. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1666

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Debt has historically served to capture and fix people within political bonds — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 133; Bank lending transfers future value to the present to earn interest — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 1028; Debt and finance work biopolitically to produce compliant self-financing subjectivities — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 90 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Debt has historically served to capture and fix people within political bonds #expands (0.85) — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 133
• Finance operates as a disciplinary mechanism that mobilizes debt to exploit labor. #expands (0.85) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 58
• Financialization captures and encloses human creative capacity through debt #expands (0.85) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 390
• Debt and finance work biopolitically to produce compliant self-financing subjectivities #expands (0.80) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 90
• Financial sector wealth derives from debts that discipline debtors into compliance #expands (0.80) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 90
• Bank lending transfers future value to the present to earn interest #expands (0.75) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 1028