Finance now structures every layer of cultural production from text to audience to labor

Evidence

From the content of the securitized cultural text, to the fragmented audience that engages with it, to the precarious labor that produces it, to the overpaid management that organizes it, to the networks that circulate it, to the indebted corporations that catalog it, to the systems of accumulation that facilitate it—financial capital now fuels the pop-music hit machine and the Holly­wood dream factory. The result is something that resembles less a factory floor than a trading floor. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 173

Categorization

• XREF: This maps the full value chain (text, audience, labor, management, networks, catalogs, accumulation) that the reader wants to trace from Wall Street to a specific song or sitcom feature.