Impatience with capitalism’s future promises makes personal imagination increasingly speculative.

Evidence

My argument is that, as we are increasingly impatient with capitalism’s future promises, our imagination becomes more and more speculative in nature, ranging from our choices of partners to our choices of government. At the same time, speculative imagination determines our capacity to hedge ourselves against future uncertainty and broken promises surrounding work security, home ownership, and life fulfillment. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 45

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the book’s core definition of speculative imagination: fusion of logic and feeling spurred by impatience with future promises.
• XREF: connects to: Impatience with capitalism’s promises drives us to speculate in every domain of choice — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 24; The speculative imagination keeps the future open to change by collectively owning its indeterminacy — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 249; Speculation now means endorsing uncertainty as a tactic for social survival — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 20 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Impatience with capitalism’s promises drives us to speculate in every domain of choice #expands (0.92) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 24
• The speculative imagination keeps the future open to change by collectively owning its indeterminacy #expands (0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 249
• Speculation now means endorsing uncertainty as a tactic for social survival #expands (0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 20