Collective suspense in daily life can convert uncertainty into communal ownership

Evidence

It was made possible during this period of collective suspense in daily mass rallies, bustling cafés, and, most poignantly, in the long but orderly lines forming outside shut banks. The image of the future conjured by citizens during these days may not have offered “an alternative,” but it strove to imagine a “collective ownership” of indeterminacy, to recall Castoriadis’s rendition—a future that was unclear, but that was at least theirs. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 340

Categorization

• DEFINE: Grounds the ‘homo speculans’ definition in a concrete mechanism: lived collective suspense is what makes dwelling-with-the-unknown possible rather than merely individual risk tolerance.