Keeping oneself perpetually available is a form of emotional miserliness

Evidence

This complex of fears has a positive version in the notion of availability (disponibilité), where in the attempt to keep myself free for anything that might come along, I hoard my present like a miser, fearing to squander it, in case I should need it in the future. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 547

Categorization

• XREF: The miser figure links back to Simmel’s and Marx’s accounts of hoarding and to the general critique of bourgeois personality as private property; resonates with Benjamin’s flâneur who cannot commit. — connects to: Self-help emotional commodities substitute defectively for lost intimacy rituals — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 229; Male emotional vulnerability enables rather than opposes ego-armour posturing — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1323
• CANDY: The image of ‘availability as emotional miserliness’ — hoarding one’s present like a miser — is a quotable, vivid compression of a philosophical point.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Self-help emotional commodities substitute defectively for lost intimacy rituals — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 229; Male emotional vulnerability enables rather than opposes ego-armour posturing — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1323

Broader Connections

• Male emotional vulnerability enables rather than opposes ego-armour posturing #complicates (0.74) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1323