Social forms, including economic ones, function as coping mechanisms for human precarity.

Evidence

If we are all dependent on one another, and must act in the world as individuals yet always know that we are ontologically reliant on one another, and that our subjectivity and individuality are always precarious, at stake, it is our social forms (including those expressed as “economic realities”) that help us cope and manage. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 219

Categorization

• XREF: Direct lever for the main goal: economic forms as precarity-coping apparatus prefigures finance’s role as stability promise, the deWaard bridge. — connects to: Financialization drives the rise of precarious labor and dissolves social bonds — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 141; Economic precarity undermines both individual and collective attention. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 326; Influencers act as intermediaries bonding consumers to commodities under precarity — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 13 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Financialization drives the rise of precarious labor and dissolves social bonds #complicates (0.80) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 141
• Financial liquidity grows by making social relations themselves precarious and liquid. #exemplifies (0.80) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 171
• Economic precarity undermines both individual and collective attention. #exemplifies (0.75) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 326
• Reified social wholes are objective forces that decide individual existence #qualifies (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 735
• Influencers act as intermediaries bonding consumers to commodities under precarity #exemplifies (0.72) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 13
• Social relations crystallize into fixed external forms that cannot keep pace with inner life #complicates (0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 778