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Wall Street Bets, Cancel Culture, and the Death of Solidarity

Is "Speculative Activism" replacing the labor movement?

John Ganz
Feb 07, 2021
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I’ve hesitated to write anything about the Gamestop affair because I don’t fully understand the mechanism of finance and I didn’t want to add to the sea of bad takes, but the event did make think of an interesting book I read and reviewed a little while ago: Michel Feher’s Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age.

Feher thinks that financial…

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