Finance has reshaped the human capacity for narrative creation itself

Evidence

Finance has shaped our very ability to create narratives, paving the way for new communal inhabitations of the unknown. … I have argued throughout that we navigate our spectacle society by dwelling in speculative communities. They enable us to “move” toward the undetermined—that is, “somewhere” not yet defined. But move we do. As we step forward into the unknown, our speculative imagination no longer settles for visions of certitude in response to the uncertainty perching at the core of our everyday lives. Speculative communities are here to stay. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 366

Categorization

• XREF: Direct payoff of the homo speculans thesis — reaches the deepest causal claim that finance conditions narrative capacity itself. — connects to: Post-1971 financialization and the creativity discourse rose in tandem as allied forces — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 50; Financialization captures and encloses human creative capacity through debt — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 390; Uncertainty deepens societies’ need for narratives and makes finance their model — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 36 (+11 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Post-1971 financialization and the creativity discourse rose in tandem as allied forces — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 50; Financialization captures and encloses human creative capacity through debt — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 390; Uncertainty deepens societies’ need for narratives and makes finance their model — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 36 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Total plasticity and recomposability evacuate narrative’s capacity to generate care #complicates (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 761
• Uncertainty deepens societies’ need for narratives and makes finance their model #complicates (0.74) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 36