Walmart synthesizes nationalism, militarism, and fear-of-terror politics into consumer space

Evidence

But all of these techniques are pivotal to a broader cultural politics whereby Walmart has become the crucible for themes of nationalism, militarism, Christian fundamentalism, consumerism, and a politics of fear and security germane to the War on Terror and the way it reorganizes the spaces of daily life under the paradigm of neoliberal risk management. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 297

Categorization

• XREF: This is the precise cultural-financialization bridge to deWaard — big-box retail as a site where finance’s risk paradigm becomes lived culture. Also connects to the Grafting & Growth infrastructure piece: spaces organized by an extractive logic encode ideology. — connects to: Revealing corporate evils fails because Walmart embodies consumers’ securitized subjectivity — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 310; Walmart functions as a vector stitching financialization and risk management into everyday life. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 272; Neoliberal anti-regulation ideology and the war on terror jointly sheltered surveillance capitalism from scrutiny — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1079 (+1 more)
• SEED: Angle: a piece on how the physical storefront — not just credit products — is where financialization becomes everyday experience; Walmart as the overlooked crucible of neoliberal risk culture.

Broader Connections

• Revealing corporate evils fails because Walmart embodies consumers’ securitized subjectivity #expands (0.85) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 310
• Walmart functions as a vector stitching financialization and risk management into everyday life. #expands (0.80) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 272
• Neoliberal anti-regulation ideology and the war on terror jointly sheltered surveillance capitalism from scrutiny #qualifies (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1079