Counter-speculation abandons Kantian self-reflexive freedom for decentered imagination
Evidence
But, in the same manner, a critique of financialization resting on my framing of speculative communities must itself be open ended. Departing from the persisting emphasis on self-reflexivity and the Kantian idea of freedom inherited from Western modernity, I contend that counter-speculations point to a more decentered speculative imagination at work, which accounts for more diverse social and political experiences of financialization. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 42
Categorization
- QUESTION: This is the theoretical crux the reader must assess: by abandoning the Kantian reflexive subject, does Komporozos-Athanasiou give up the very ground from which critique of finance could be leveled — or does his decentering genuinely open a more diverse politics?
- XREF: The turn against Kantian self-reflexivity echoes the Frankfurt School debates over whether Enlightenment reason and the autonomous subject retain emancipatory force. — connects to: The Kantian noumenon-phenomenon dualism mirrors the agency-system oscillation — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 706; Post-Kantian philosophy feverishly reclaimed intellectual intuition as a guarantee of its high claims — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 346; Ambivalent retreat and uncoordinated refusal form a generative counter-speculative politics — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 346
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Kantian noumenon-phenomenon dualism mirrors the agency-system oscillation — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 706; Post-Kantian philosophy feverishly reclaimed intellectual intuition as a guarantee of its high claims — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 346; Ambivalent retreat and uncoordinated refusal form a generative counter-speculative politics — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 346
Broader Connections
- Post-Kantian philosophy feverishly reclaimed intellectual intuition as a guarantee of its high claims
#complicates(0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 346