Intimacy became a temporary experience molded by speculative technologies
Evidence
As our routine navigations of social life become more transient and mobile, our temporal experiences of intimacy shift in similar ways: casual sexual encounters, hookups, flings, friends with benefits, noncommittal and polyamorous relationships (not to mention rapidly falling marriage and climbing divorce rates) are the order of the day. Intimacy itself becomes a fulcrum of the short-lived experience venerated by speculative technologies. And as the receding entrepreneurial logic of homo economicus makes way for the more uncertain longings of homo speculans, an immersive fixation with images dominates romantic and sexual encounters alike. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 216
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- DEFINE: Contrasts homo economicus’s entrepreneurial logic with homo speculans’s uncertain longings, core to the book’s thesis.
- XREF: Builds directly on earlier chapters defining homo speculans; connects to reader’s goal of explaining the concept.
Related
- Speculative intimacies are anxious wagers offering scant hope against uncertainty (similarity 0.86)
- Speculative intimacies are anxious repeated wagers on intimate bonds amid uncertainty. (similarity 0.86)
- Speculative imagination, not neoliberal rationality, drives contemporary intimacies (similarity 0.85)
- Romantic love’s redemptive promise now conflicts with our embrace of uncertainty (similarity 0.82)
- Digital-financial convergence reorients intimacy toward open-ended uncertainty navigation rather than destroying sociality (similarity 0.80)
- Romantic bonds are now formed as transactable speculative positions (similarity 0.80)
- Modern culture simultaneously demands intimate love and makes trusting it irrational (similarity 0.80)
- Money and intimacy cannot be disentangled from each other. (similarity 0.80)
- Speculative technologies erode boundaries between previously separate realms of life (similarity 0.80)
- Homo speculans pursues connectivity and secular mythologies, not gratification (similarity 0.80)
- Speculative communities form through fleeting digital rituals, not shared narratives. (similarity 0.80)
- Neoliberal critique alone cannot explain speculation in modern dating (similarity 0.78)