Anderson’s imagined-communities framework applies to speculative finance and collective imaginings.

Evidence

I analyze the great relevance of this work for the present study by unpacking the increasingly complexified links between imagination, temporality, and materiality. I discuss specifically how Anderson’s innovative focus on the standardizing and synchronizing role of early capitalist commodities can be applied to identify the new, contingent practices of speculative imagination at a time when we are routinely overloaded with digital images but also befuddled about how to imagine a collective future (Bottici 2014). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 55

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Speculative communities arise from the tension between financial imagination and neoliberal reason — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 31; Imagined Communities analysis can be deployed to study financialized capitalism through speculation. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 127; Speculative imagination generates collective futures under incalculable uncertainty (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Imagined Communities analysis can be deployed to study financialized capitalism through speculation. #corroborates (0.95) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 127
• Speculative communities arise from the tension between financial imagination and neoliberal reason #corroborates (0.88) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 31
• Speculative imagination generates collective futures under incalculable uncertainty #expands (0.85)
• Speculative imagination is a generative social force integrated into everyday capitalist life #expands (0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 74
• Speculative technologies generate a distinct collective temporal experience analogous to Andersonian imagined community #expands (0.82)
• Finance produces its own imagined communities rather than merely colonizing existing ones #expands (0.82)
• Finance shapes modern societies’ collective myths and imagined communities, not just economies #expands (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 19
• Finance capitalism now shapes collective imagination the way print capitalism built nations #exemplifies (0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 271