Finance’s politics includes generative vernaculars not just destruction

Evidence

Yet, by insisting that finance’s primary effect on the space of politics is fundamentally deconstructive, we risk losing sight of new political vernaculars emerging on the ground level and, importantly, of the connectivities that these vernaculars also forge. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 406

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves this reader’s purpose: finance reshapes the social imagination via new connectivities, not only deconstruction. — connects to: Finance can unwittingly create new political possibilities for marginalized people — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 46; Finance is socially and politically generative, not merely economically exploitative — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 22; Finance creatively generates new forms of social and political life — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 98 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Finance is socially and politically generative, not merely economically exploitative #corroborates (0.95) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 22
• Finance creatively generates new forms of social and political life #expands (0.92) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 98
• Finance shapes modern societies’ collective myths and imagined communities, not just economies #corroborates (0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 19
• Financialized politics shifts struggle onto finance’s own turf among active debtor and investor subjects #expands (0.84) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 486
• Finance theory shapes markets through the linguistic infrastructure it provides practitioners #expands (0.82) — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, 1128
• Finance produces its own imagined communities rather than merely colonizing existing ones #expands (0.80)
• Contemporary political struggle is now fought on finance’s own terrain #exemplifies (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 486
• Finance capitalism now shapes collective imagination the way print capitalism built nations #expands (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 271
• Critical finance studies treat markets as discursively constituted rather than merely material #expands (0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 578