Financial concepts contain their own utopian negation.
Evidence
I have sought, throughout, to beg, borrow and steal terms and ideas from finance and find the utopian moment within them that is at once the heart of their power and the kernel of their negation. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 62
Categorization
- XREF: Methodological echo of how Marx read political economy concepts against themselves — immanent critique. — connects to: Finance’s utopian promises contain the seed of their own subversion; Everyday people can counter finance using small doses of its own speculative logic — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 541; Under late capitalism, utopian thought reversed its function and now serves as negation — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 222 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Finance’s utopian promises contain the seed of their own subversion
#corroborates(0.95) - Under late capitalism, utopian thought reversed its function and now serves as negation
#corroborates(0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 222 - Everyday people can counter finance using small doses of its own speculative logic
#expands(0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 541 - Financial speculation on reputational asset value generates neoliberalism’s own internal resistance.
#expands(0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 70