Digital-financial convergence reorients intimacy toward open-ended uncertainty navigation rather than destroying sociality

Evidence

The line of my argument is this: the growing convergence between the world of finance and our everyday digital lives has deepened the sense of confusion for homo speculans and has exacerbated its lack of control in forming durable connections. But these contemporary transformations have not entirely hollowed out relations in speculative communities. They have reoriented our pursuits of sociality and intimacy toward more open-ended navigations of the present’s uncertainty and, in doing so, they have poked even greater holes in neoliberalism’s fading legitimacy. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 164

Categorization

• SEED: Directly relevant to the reader’s assessment question — here is the author’s causal claim that digital finance reorients rather than hollows social bonds. Useful anchor for evaluating the counter-speculations chapter.
• XREF: connects to: Continuous visibility under algorithmic gaze creates perpetual social-currency valuation — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1490; Online dating markets frame romance as return on affective investment — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 50