Capitalism’s temporal and material conditions shape societies’ shared imagined futures

Evidence

Anderson’s comment is telling of the importance the future plays in his analysis of imagined communities. In spite of the concept’s limitations, his unique emphasis on our shared uncertain futures offers a timeless insight into capitalism’s speculative dynamics, opening a window into “the obscurity” that lies ahead. It is the historical evolution of this speculative dynamics that we must therefore explore now. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 158

Categorization

• XREF: Extends Benedict Anderson’s ‘imagined communities’ thesis into the speculative domain the reader is tracking. — connects to: Shared-dreaming fiction encodes its era’s political economy, collective versus commercial. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 521; Debt functions as a capture of subjects’ future time under contemporary capitalism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1666; The temporal structures of a society shape our sense of being in the world — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 65
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 158