Counter-speculations offer no destination but enable collective dwelling with uncertainty

Evidence

I find Federici’s view especially evocative of what unites the disparate examples of counter-speculation I have discussed in this chapter: political practices that contain no finite lessons for where to move toward yet nevertheless represent important ways of dwelling collectively (and consciously) with the unknown. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 348

Categorization

• DEFINE: A precise account of what unifies counter-speculations — they are ways of dwelling with the unknown, not blueprints for where to go.
• QUESTION: This is where the reader’s critique bites: if counter-speculation offers ‘no finite lessons for where to move toward,’ does it actually reclaim speculative imagination for the left, or just aestheticize uncertainty with no program?
• XREF: connects to: Political action can express communal dwelling with uncertainty rather than a clear plan; Theorizing offers a provisional home to those without one in their lived family — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 131