Current crises express immanent speculative politics rather than an interregnum awaiting new birth

Evidence

I have offered a different reading of what is typically framed as a crisis of capitalism, contending that our current state of suspense challenges the often-cited Gramscian “interregnum thesis” that the old is dead and the new cannot be born. There is no deceased homo politicus to be revived, but a world of immanent possibilities in the politics of homo speculans. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 363

Categorization

• XREF: Directly engages and rejects Gramsci’s interregnum thesis and Boltanski-Chiapello’s critique of capitalism’s co-optation — exactly the assess-the-argument move central to the reader’s stated purpose. — connects to: Speculation’s tension between rationality and irrationality now defines Western political fault lines — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 100; Crises, real or imagined, drive popular support for nationalist and populist leaders — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 82; Contemporary political movements emerge from speculation rather than rational calculation — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 553