Popular commodities function as public pedagogy for financial rationality
Evidence
So, Pokémon is a multimedia practice for developing a sense of agency in financialized times. It is a form of what I call, borrowing from the work of Henry Giroux (2004, 105–124), a “public pedagogy” of financialization: it creates a learning environment for the cultivation of a certain repertoire of skills and competencies and, more importantly, an ethos. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 394
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the book’s core concept ‘public pedagogy of financialization’ - a learning environment that cultivates financial competencies and ethos.
- XREF: Core concept linking directly to deWaard’s cultural argument about how finance colonizes everyday life. — connects to: Corporate commodities become playgrounds where children negotiate value and meaning — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 375; Market speculation functions as secular prophecy sustaining public faith in finance — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 227; Hero-worship functions as a placeholder vehicle for propagating economic ideas to mass publics — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 450 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Market speculation functions as secular prophecy sustaining public faith in finance
#expands(0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 227 - Finance shapes modern societies’ collective myths and imagined communities, not just economies
#expands(0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 19 - Hero-worship functions as a placeholder vehicle for propagating economic ideas to mass publics
#exemplifies(0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 450 - Populist passions animate rather than oppose financial rationality
#expands(0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 268 - Bucket-shop speculation democratized participation in early finance capitalism
#exemplifies(0.72) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 121