Communities endure financialized life’s chaos by building shared fictions
Evidence
The labyrinth’s pathways may be puzzling, but they are the outcome of our own digging; their twists and turns are not the whims of “a trickster,” to use Teju Cole’s words. By digging the proverbial labyrinth, speculative communities give form to chaos and create a world that allows them to endure collectively the vicissitudes of financialized everyday life. … Finance has shaped our very ability to create narratives, paving the way for new communal inhabitations of the unknown. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 563
Categorization
- XREF: Directly in the reader’s lane: how speculation reshapes the social imagination — this explains the mechanism (communal narrative-building as survival strategy). — connects to: Speculative communities arise from the tension between financial imagination and neoliberal reason — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 31; Financial wealth is fictitious yet real because shared fictions govern social reproduction — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 42; Speculative communities give collective form to chaos by digging their own labyrinths — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 365 (+10 more)
- STORYSTEM: The labyrinth-we-dig-ourselves image: a speculative community that has dug so far it cannot find its own exit, yet the digging is the meaning — a fable about a prediction-market cult.
Broader Connections
- Financial wealth is fictitious yet real because shared fictions govern social reproduction
#corroborates(0.85) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 42 - Speculative communities give collective form to chaos by digging their own labyrinths
#expands(0.82) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 365 - Speculative communities arise from the tension between financial imagination and neoliberal reason
#expands(0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 31 - Mutual acknowledgment of shared fragility binds speculative communities together
#expands(0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 27 - Social fictions are how societies make sense of sublime reproduction
#expands(0.75) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 121 - Finance produces its own imagined communities rather than merely colonizing existing ones
#expands(0.75) - Finance shapes modern societies’ collective myths and imagined communities, not just economies
#expands(0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 19 - Speculative communities unify members through shared future-openness rather than traditional power ties.
#complicates(0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 292 - Speculative communities emerge from collective imagination, not individual gambling
#qualifies(0.74) - Financialization colonizes culture by mobilizing everyday fictions like play, creativity, and resistance.
#qualifies(0.72) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 54 - Finance creatively generates new forms of social and political life
#expands(0.72) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 98 - Anderson’s imagined-communities framework applies to speculative finance and collective imaginings.
#responds-to(0.70) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 55 - Imagined Communities analysis can be deployed to study financialized capitalism through speculation.
#responds-to(0.70) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 127