[...] we can understand “fictitious capital” writ large as the way capital spins a crucial social fiction about the nature of the world. Like all fictions, this is not merely a harmless story. It has incredible power. Financialization represents the dawning supremacy of fictitious capital over all other means of explaining and imagining (global) society. Financialization has become the dominant narrative of our times, and therefore shapes the imaginations of all varieties of social actors in ways that fundamentally orient their reproduction, largely towards its own reproduction. It becomes the metanarrative that increasingly influences and shapes social fictions throughout the social fabric.