Revealing corporate evils fails because Walmart embodies consumers’ securitized subjectivity

Evidence

Walmart offers itself as an ally of the sorts of consuming/investing securitized subjects it helps create. This is why efforts that limit themselves to revealing Walmart’s (many) evils will have only limited success. In order to confront and overcome securitizing capitalism, cultural critics and their allies will need to offer a vision of a plausible future that provides those things that securitization falsely promises. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 310

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the sacrifice/trees articles’ shared theme that exposing a system’s evils is palliative without offering a positive alternative vision — parallels the argument that anti-noise campaigns fail because they don’t restore listening connection.
• XREF: connects to: Walmart shapes workers and shoppers into financialized risk-managing subjects. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 47; Walmart sells consumers the spectacle of security amid manufactured chaos — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 251; Walmart synthesizes nationalism, militarism, and fear-of-terror politics into consumer space — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 297 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Consumers now take for granted supply-chain horrors that once provoked scandal #corroborates (0.82) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 778
• Consumers buy culture-industry products knowing they are being manipulated #corroborates (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 31
• Walmart’s power operates through securitization linking financial risk management to surveillance #qualifies (0.78) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 558
• Walmart’s security serves capital reproduction, not human autonomy #qualifies (0.75) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 560
• Informed consumers are more easily exploited by the market #corroborates (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 126