Imagined communities emerge from capitalism, print, and linguistic diversity

Evidence

The passage from Imagined Communities outlining these three elements reads “What, in a positive sense, made the new communities imaginable was a half-fortuitous, but explosive, interaction between a system of production and productive relations (capitalism), a technology of communications (print), and the fatality of human linguistic diversity” (Anderson 1991, 41–42). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 411

Categorization

• DEFINE: The three-part Anderson formula the book analogically maps onto speculative communities — production, communications technology, linguistic diversity become finance, digital platforms, uncertainty.
• XREF: connects to: Web 2.0 operates as an imagined community promising democratized creativity and wealth — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 24; Speculative communities evolve from imagined communities by financializing their three core elements — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 152; Print standardization fragmented formerly fluid multilingual literary communities — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 1108 (+1 more)