Impatience with capitalism’s promises drives us to speculate in every domain of choice

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. Speculative communities, in that sense, are formed around neither calculating reason nor irrational passions—they are propped up by the spirit of finance, which fuses logic and feeling into a generative speculative imagination. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 24

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the core concept: speculative imagination fuses logic and feeling, and speculative communities form around neither pure reason nor pure passion.
• XREF: The claim that financial logic has migrated into partner choice connects to the reader’s know interest in how speculation reaches dating and self-presentation. — connects to: Impatience with capitalism’s future promises makes personal imagination increasingly speculative. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 45