Castoriadis’ philosophy provides an open-ended framing of capitalist dynamics.

Evidence

Through this genealogy, chapter 2 offers a deconstructive reading of the foregoing dichotomies and plants the seeds of a constructivist (rather than imitative, reflective, fictitious, or irrational) view of the speculative imagination. I inquire into the cultural and historical variability of the concept, and I demonstrate comparatively how Marxist and Weberian political economies approach the speculative imagination with a mixture of wonder, neglect, and dismissal. In response, I propose a theory that redresses materialist determinism and its dogmatic closed dialectics (which leaves little room for incalculably creative acts and politically radical agents) without however relapsing into the universalism of Kantian idealism. To do so, I draw on the underexplored political philosophy of Cornelius Castoriadis to develop a more open-ended framing of capitalist dynamics. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 34

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies what constructivist (opposed to imitative/reflective/fictitious/irrational) means for the speculative imagination — the core technical distinction of the book.
• XREF: connects to: Castoriadis believes Marx’s dialectics must be destroyed, not inverted — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 244
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Castoriadis believes Marx’s dialectics must be destroyed, not inverted — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 244