Left counter-speculation can reclaim volatility by severing inherited political rationality.

Evidence

Counter-speculations are just as elusive as the chaos-inducing practices of populist agitators, wielding similarly volatizing political strategies—albeit with an altogether different aim: to redraw the map of democratic politics. … I argue that such counter-speculations, while often eluding our comprehension, call attention to the importance of cutting the umbilical cord of inherited modes of political rationality, enabling the speculative imagination to fight financialization more effectively on its own turf. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 242

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces and defines ‘counter-speculation’ — the term the reader explicitly wants to assess critically.