Fictions become the most reliable ordering principle amid collapsing social promises

Evidence

Faced with the perpetual domino of collapsing promises, from housing and healthcare to work security and family, the translation from fiction to facts is now all but sidestepped. More and more, homo speculans lingers in the space of fictions, not irrationally, but because fictions become the most reliable ordering principle in a protean reality. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 119

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Central insight: lingering in fiction is rational, not irrational — fictions out-perform facts as ordering principles under radical uncertainty.
• XREF: connects to: Financialized subjects stay in fictions because fictions order protean reality — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 79; Radicalized uncertainty intensifies society’s hunger for orienting narratives; Uncertainty deepens societies’ need for narratives and makes finance their model — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 36 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Financialized subjects stay in fictions because fictions order protean reality #corroborates (0.90) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 79
• Uncertainty deepens societies’ need for narratives and makes finance their model #expands (0.90) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 36
• Radicalized uncertainty intensifies society’s hunger for orienting narratives #expands (0.80)
• Speculation now means endorsing uncertainty as a tactic for social survival #corroborates (0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 20