Collective imagination, not individual gamblers, shapes our shared wagers on the future

Evidence

The book has traced a key historical shift—­from neoliberal capitalism’s totemic homo economicus to a more socially embedded homo speculans—­to demonstrate this pivotal, if elusive, role of the speculative imagination. Speculative communities, I contend, are not the sum of individual gamblers and opportunists. Beneath individual struggles for survival in the face of growing insecurity, collective imaginations shape our shared wagers on the future. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 552

Categorization

• XREF: The homo speculans shift maps onto the reader’s financialization research interest in collective rather than individual economic behavior. — connects to: Speculative communities emerge from collective imagination, not individual gambling; Speculative imagination generates collective futures under incalculable uncertainty; A collective speculative imagination shapes how capitalist societies cope with future uncertainty. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 45 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Speculative communities emerge from collective imagination, not individual gambling #corroborates (1.00)
• A collective speculative imagination shapes how capitalist societies cope with future uncertainty. #corroborates (0.90) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 45
• Speculative imagination generates collective futures under incalculable uncertainty #expands (0.85)
• Speculation now pervades economic, social, and political life as an imagined collective enactment #expands (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 85
• The speculative imagination keeps the future open to change by collectively owning its indeterminacy #expands (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 249
• Speculation performs a social function beyond individual risk-taking #expands (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 169
• Speculative imagination is social yearning, not just individual credit-maximizing. #corroborates (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 196
• Speculation re-enchants social groups by projecting failed promises onto shared visions of the future #complicates (0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 63