Finance’s speculative imagination shapes intimate desires deeper than economic principles do.

Evidence

Hence, in the following I am less interested in the effect of economic principles (or practices) on these relationships and am more curious about the deeper (and more obscure) impact of finance’s distinct speculative imagination on our ephemeral, confused, digitally mediated desires. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 339

Categorization

• SEED: Anchor for an essay distinguishing economic-practice effects from speculative-imagination effects on social life.
• XREF: connects to: Finance’s dominance rests on speculative imagination, not just market rationality. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 550; Finance’s social dominance rests on popular speculative imagination, not mere value subordination — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 356; Speculative imagination is social yearning, not just individual credit-maximizing. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 196 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Finance’s dominance rests on speculative imagination, not just market rationality. #corroborates (0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 550
• Finance’s social dominance rests on popular speculative imagination, not mere value subordination #expands (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 356
• Finance’s resilience stems from imagination, not rationality #corroborates (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 28
• Finance capitalism’s power struggles are fundamentally contests over speculative imagination #expands (0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 148
• Speculative imagination is social yearning, not just individual credit-maximizing. #corroborates (0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 196
• Finance shapes modern societies’ collective myths and imagined communities, not just economies #expands (0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 19
• Economic expectations are products of imagination rather than reason. #corroborates (0.72) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 137
• Speculative imagination, not just disciplined capital, drives capitalism forward #corroborates (0.72) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 17
• Financial wealth is fictitious yet real because shared fictions govern social reproduction #corroborates (0.70) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 42