Financial metaphors and modes have crept into everyday North American culture

Evidence

His 2003 book Financialization of Daily Life illustrated the way financial ideas, understandings, metaphors and modes were creeping their way into the cultural climate of North America in spheres as diverse as “financial literacy” education, self-help books and, of course, the realms of investments, pensions, credit and debt. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 91

Categorization

• XREF: This is the exact intellectual lineage feeding the reader’s deWaard cultural argument — financialization as cultural colonizer of daily life through literacy education, self-help, and pensions. — connects to: Financial language simultaneously reflects and advances the spread of financialization. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 69; Financialization means finance’s logics penetrate the fabric of everyday life — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 72; Financialization colonizes culture through diffuse metaphors, narratives, and techniques — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 35 (+8 more)
• SEED: Article angle: ‘financial literacy education as a technology of self-discipline’ — how teaching budgeting/credit produces the compliant subject Lazzarato describes.

Broader Connections

• Finance shapes modern societies’ collective myths and imagined communities, not just economies #expands (0.90) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 19
• Cultural industries shifted from commodity language to financial-instrument language #corroborates (0.85) — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 96
• Finance capitalism now shapes collective imagination the way print capitalism built nations #expands (0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 271
• Children’s culture contains elemental traces of financialization #exemplifies (0.82) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 323
• Finance creatively generates new forms of social and political life #expands (0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 98