Marginalized groups live more intensely in the present because they cannot escape uncertainty

Evidence

Let me step back one final time and consider the political forms of counter-­speculation I have discussed in this chapter. Today, those residing in the disadvantaged corners of speculative communities share an even more profound sense of urgency from experiencing the immediate consequences of issues ranging from systemic structural racism to anthropogenic climate change: precarious gig economy workers faced with exorbitant living costs and desolate housing conditions, incarcerated people of color in US prisons, refugees in Europe’s shameful and overcrowded refugee camps, small-­scale farmers in coastal farmlands exposed to rising sea levels and flooding. These are constituencies that are simply unable to “be distracted” by the current vortex of uncertainty, and hence their immersion in the condensed temporality of the present can be even greater. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 531

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s running theme of homo speculans and present-condensed temporality; also echoes Richard Sennett’s flexible person and the precarity literature this book cites. — connects to: Uncertainty drives people to attach to highly entitative groups — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 254; Marginalized groups cannot escape heightened present-focused anxiety — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 531

Broader Connections

• Uncertainty drives people to attach to highly entitative groups #qualifies (0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 254