Brexit won by embracing uncertainty rather than promising escape from it

Evidence

Such chaos therefore emerged paradoxically as both a reassuring and a more “realistic” response to uncertainty than the “remain” camp’s realpolitik. In turn, lingering in this space of uncertainty (as opposed to promising a clear path out of it) paved the way for a Brexit narrative of hope and optimism. Brexit itself, then, can be understood as an outcome of the “leave” campaign’s volatility-driven politics, galvanized by finance’s formidable speculative imagination. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 290

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to earlier chapters defining homo speculans and the migration of speculative logic from trading to politics.