Homo speculans is the subject that replaced rational homo economicus after 2008

Evidence

Homo speculans: the modern hegemonic subject of finance capitalism and successor of the rational homo economicus. Its origins lie in the genesis of the nineteenth century’s formal futures and derivatives markets, but it resurfaces as a much more salient agent after the 2008 global financial crisis, emboldened by a powerful, resurgent speculative imagination. Homo speculans is an economic actor but also a social and political subject, whose struggles, desires, and imagination give shape to our modern speculative communities. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 10

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Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: This is the core definitional term of the entire book — the reader’s stated purpose hinges on precisely this concept.

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• Homo speculans replaces homo economicus as contemporary capitalism’s characteristic subject (similarity 0.94)
• 2008’s crisis installed speculation as the defining modern economic subjectivity (similarity 0.90)
• Economic theory has neglected homo speculans while fixating on homo economicus. (similarity 0.89)
• The speculative subject displaced homo economicus as the organizing figure of markets and publics. (similarity 0.89)
• Homo economicus has been succeeded by a speculative subject who accepts uncertainty (similarity 0.89)
• Homo speculans, a chaos-embracing subject, displaces rationality-driven homo economicus. (similarity 0.89)
• The speculative subject accepts rather than averts the future’s radical uncertainty (similarity 0.88)
• Homo speculans is the rising hegemonic subject of early finance capitalism (similarity 0.86)
• Homo speculans pursues connectivity and secular mythologies, not gratification (similarity 0.85)
• Speculative communities emerge from collective imagination, not individual gambling (similarity 0.84)
• Finance is socially and politically generative, not merely economically exploitative (similarity 0.82)
• Speculation performs a social function beyond individual risk-taking (similarity 0.82)
• The spirit of capitalism shifts from risk-taking to uncertainty-endorsing speculation. (similarity 0.82)
• Finance is where real and fictitious, rational and irrational worlds collapse into one another (similarity 0.81)
• Homo speculans remains socially embedded despite algorithmic trading (similarity 0.81)