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variegated

Today, capitalism as a cultural force is far more versatile, variegated and pluralistic

—p.116 Play: Coming of Age in the Speculative Pokéconomy (102) by Max Haiven
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ludic

this semi-ludic approach to risk management has dramatic and grave consequences

—p.106 Play: Coming of Age in the Speculative Pokéconomy (102) by Max Haiven
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apogee

biopolitics, which he saw as reaching a new apogee in the emergence of a neoliberalism that increasingly subordinated social institutions to market imperatives in the name of freedom, democracy and individual rights

—p.79 Securitization: Walmart’s Financialized Empire (74) by Max Haiven
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biopolitics

securitization is not merely the lingua franca of contemporary finance; it is also the biopolitical imperative of financialization.

—p.78 Securitization: Walmart’s Financialized Empire (74) by Max Haiven
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writ large

we can understand “fictitious capital” writ large as the way capital spins a crucial social fiction about the nature of the world.

—p.40 The Reproduction of Fictitious Capital: The Social Fictions and Metaphoric Wealth of Financialization (15) by Max Haiven
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