Financialized politics shifts struggle onto finance’s own turf among active debtor and investor subjects

Evidence

These important frameworks, then, sketch a dynamic (and in some ways optimistic) matrix of risk-­debt politics, which seeks to overcome the atomizing effect of financialization. Perhaps most valuably, such critical work captures the shifting field of political struggle itself, comprising not mere “cogs in the current regime of capital accumulation” (Feher 2018, 209) but active debtors, creditors, investors, and investees whose collective battles are waged on finance’s own turf. What is more, such framing is sensitive to more inclusive visibilities, through an acknowledgment of traditionally invisible subjects’ mutual contingencies—­chief among which is their mutual indebtedness. Dividual and investee politics endeavors to overthrow the yoke of debt’s moral indictment. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 486

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the ‘dividual and investee politics’ concept central to current financialization theory — subjects defined by mutual indebtedness rather than labor.
• XREF: connects to: Finance’s politics includes generative vernaculars not just destruction — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 406; Debtors can weaponize their own investee status to fight financialization from within — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 485; Contemporary political struggle is now fought on finance’s own terrain — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 486

Broader Connections

• Contemporary political struggle is now fought on finance’s own terrain #corroborates (0.95) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 486