Two things, however, are qualitatively new at this point, having come to fruition over the last 30 years. First, as we have seen, finance has reached incredibly deeply into everyday life in new ways, making our daily choices and forms of resistance legible to and part of the global market (Langley 2008, 88–111; Martin 2007, 1–9). Today, our own resistance to the capitalist social order is borne out in our creditcard debt, our student loans, our mortgages and our savings (if we are lucky enough to have any of those), which have themselves become the source of financial speculation and derivative dealing. Second, the financial market today is more integrated, faster, more complex and more uncontrollable than ever before. Indeed, the vast majority of exchanges are conducted by automated computers, decomposing, rebundling and flipping securities in ways that exceed the pace and capacity of human cognition (see Lewis 2014).

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 544