Jamal Awil

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The silver lining is perhaps this: what financialization reveals is the inherent futurity. [definitional]

The silver lining is perhaps this: what financialization reveals is the inherent futurity of precariousness. The word itself derives from the Latin prex or prayer, with strong connotations of begging or soliciting: yearning for future outcomes, throwing oneself on the mercy of fate or divine provenance.

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 235