Forced speculation is collective yet its costs fall unevenly across populations

Evidence

I do not wish to idealize this new subject or to suggest that the spaces it pries open are necessarily positive. Vast swaths of the global population have in fact no choice today but to occupy a speculative position. But the experiences of homo speculans are collective experiences, situated within speculative communities; its imperatives are universal, yet its struggles are profoundly uneven. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 28

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definition of homo speculans as a subject whose speculative imperatives are universal but whose struggles are unevenly distributed.
• XREF: Nut of the reader’s stated purpose: speculation has migrated from trading floors to a universal condition that nevertheless hits the Global South hardest.