Speculative communities : living with uncertainty in a financialized world
Komporozos-Athanasiou, Aris2022
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"In Speculative Communities, Komporozos-Athanasiou examines the ways that financial speculation has moved beyond markets to shape fundamental aspects of our social and political lives. As ordinary people make exceptional decisions--such as the American election of a populist demagogue or the British vote to leave the European Union--they are moving from time-honored and -tested practices of governance, toward the speculative promise of a different kind of future. Even our methods of building community have shifted to the speculative realm as social media platforms enable and amplify alternative visions of the present and future-these are the "speculative communities" that now shape our personal and political realities. For Komporozos-Athanasiou, "to speculate" means increasingly "to connect," to endorse uncertainty preemptively, and often daringly, as a means of social survival. Finance has thus become the model for society writ large. These financial systems have taken a notable turn in our current era, however. Contemporary capitalism sees the risk-taking, entrepreneurial person being refashioned as a politically disoriented, speculative subject, who embraces the future's radical uncertainty rather than averting it. As Komporozos-Athanasiou shows, virtual marketplaces, new social media, and dating apps function as finance's speculative infrastructures, leading to a new type of imagination across economy and society"--
Main title:
Speculative communities : living with uncertainty in a financialized world / Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou.
Author:
Komporozos-Athanasiou, Aris, author
Imprint:
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago, 2022.©2022
Collation:
x, 198 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Speculation : finance and capitalism. The rise of speculative communities; A genealogy of speculative imagination : old spirits of capitalism -- Spectacle : finance and society. Speculative technologies and the new Homo speculans; Speculative intimacies -- Specter : finance and polity. Financialized populism and new nationalisms; Counter-speculations.
ISBN:
9780226816029 (pbk)9780226816029
Dewey class:
332.645
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
505404
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Computers and Business | 332.645 KOM | Available |